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These are the Canasta rules as defined by 'Hoyle's Rules of Games'. Overview Your goal is to beat your opponent by scoring more points. You score points by melding cards, and making as many canastas as possible. A canasta is a meld of at least seven cards of the same rank. Each player starts with 15 cards in hand. Yours are visible at the bottom of the window. Both players take turns in drawing one card from the stock, and discarding one card on the discard pile (in that order). Both players take turns in drawing the first card. After drawing a card, a player may meld cards if (s)he wants to. Cards are melded in columns of at least three cards; e.g. you can meld three Kings, or four Fives. You cannot meld sequences like Four-Five-Six. Once a card has been melded, it cannot be taken back into the hand (except with the Undo meld option). When a player has melded his cards, he ends his turn by discarding a card. At that point, his melded cards are checked to see if they conform to the canasta rules. Discarding a card is not necessary if the player can go out by melding all of his cards. Instead of drawing a card from the stock, a player may take the entire discard pile. However, this is only allowed if he can directly meld the top card. A hand is over when one of the players has no cards left in his hand, or when there are no cards left on the stock. The scores of both players are then computed, and a new hand is dealt. A player can only finish a hand when he has at least one or two canastas, depending on the setting of the corresponding option. A canasta match is over when one of the players reaches 5,000 points. Rules If a rank is melded, it must contain at least three cards on the table. It is possible to add a wildcard to a column of cards of any rank on the table. The wildcard is then seen as a card of that rank (but the value remains unchanged). However, there may never be more wildcards than natural cards within one meld. At the beginning of a hand, the top card of the stock is automatically turned around and placed on the discard pile. If this card is a Red Three or a wildcard, the procedure is repeated until the top card of the discard pile is neither a Red Three nor a wildcard. When a new hand is dealt, the hands of both players are checked to see if they contain a Red Three. If there is one, that Three is then automatically melded, and an extra card is dealt to the hand out of which it came. This procedure is repeated until neither player has any Red Threes left in his hand. Black Threes may not be melded, except when the player can go out by melding a column of three or four Black Threes. These Black Threes must then be the last cards to be melded. The discard pile can be frozen by discarding a wildcard or a Red Three. A freeze is indicated by brackets [..] and means that both players are only allowed to take the discard pile if they can meld the top card using only the cards in their hand, as if they had no cards on the table. For example, if the discard pile is frozen and the top card is a Seven, the pile may only be taken if the player has two Sevens in his hand, even though he has a column of three Sevens on the table. Also, no wildcards may be used in melding: if he has one Seven and a wildcard in hand - instead of two Sevens- he may not take the discard pile. If you have taken the discard pile but discover that you cannot use the top card, you can restore the pile by clicking on it. This carries a penalty of 50 points. It is never allowed to take the discard pile when the top card is a Black Three, a Red Three or a wildcard. Thus, Black Threes can be used to freeze the pile for a single turn. The first time a player melds cards in a hand, their value must be at least a certain minimum. When a player goes out in one turn ('goes out concealed'), this requirement does not apply. A player can only go out when he has at least one or two canastas, depending on the 'Canastas needed to go out' setting. If a player has less than this number of canastas, and only has one card left that he should discard, he has to 'pass the discard', i.e., he does not discard that last card. Taking a discard pile that only contains one card is never allowed if you only have one card in your hand. When there are no more cards on the stock a special situation occurs: 1. If the discard pile is not frozen and you can add the top discard to one of your melds, you must take that top discard. Only that card is removed from the pile; you do not receive the rest. You must discard normally. 2. If you can take the discard pile in the normal way, you may. You must discard normally. 3. If you can do neither, press the 'End Hand' button that appears in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You do not have to discard.

Scoring: Card Values and Bonuses The cards have the following point values: Card Value Four, Five, Six, Seven, Black Three 5 Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack, Queen, King 10 Deuce, Ace 20 Joker 50 Red Three 100 The following bonuses are awarded: A mixed canasta is worth 300 points, a natural canasta 500 points, and a wildcard canasta 1,000 points. The player that goes out gets a bonus of 100 points. If this player had no cards (except Red Threes) on the table directly before going out ('goes out concealed'), this bonus is doubled to 200 points. If a player has all four Red Threes on the table, their score of 400 points is doubled to 800 points. If a player goes out and his opponent has melded nothing but Red Threes, the value of those Red Threes is deducted from his opponent's score. Total Score At the end of a hand, the total score is calculated as follows: The sum of the values of the cards on the table forms the initial score value. Bonuses for canastas, going out and Red Threes are added to the score. The values of the cards in hand are deducted from the score. However, if you have selected Yes in the 'Canasta required for positive score' option, this calculation is only valid if you have at least the number of canastas as it is shown in the 'Canastas needed to go out' setting! If not, a negative score results consisting of the sum of the values of the cards in your hand and on the table. It is therefore always wise to get a canasta quickly, so that you don't run the risk of holding a large collection of cards if your opponent goes out. If you have selected No, the above does not apply. Minimum The first time in a hand that a player melds cards the sum of their values must be at least a certain minimum. This minimum depends on your current score in the following way: Score Minimum Less than 0 15 From 0 to 1495 50 From 1500 to 2995 90 3000 or more 120 Notes The values of any Red Threes never contribute to the required minimum. Canastas contribute only if the corresponding option is enabled. If you turn off the option Top card counts for initial meld, you must add the value of the top card to the minimum needed when taking the discard pile. E.g., if the minimum is 50 and you took an Ace from the pile, you must have 50 + 20 = 70 points on the table to get the rest of the pile. The value of the Ace is thus not counted toward the 50 point minimum. If you took the top card of the discard pile but you discover that you cannot use it, you can put it back by clicking on the pile again. This carries a penalty of 50 points.

This page is partly based on contributions from Barbara Bain and from Gorgon.

Introduction

The games described on this page belong to a distinctive North American variety of Canasta or Hand and Foot with the following special features:

1. As in Hand and Foot, each player is dealt a second hand of cards, which can be picked up only when when the player has completed a canasta.
2. There are four types of canasta: natural (red), mixed (black), wild (twos and jokers only) and sevens. A team needs one of each type to go out.

In the card game literature this type of game is generally known as Pennies from Heaven. Gorgon has contributed a version called Railroad Canasta, and Barbara Bain's version of Hand and Foot is another game of this type.

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Almost identical descriptions of this game appears in the US Playing Card Company's publication 'Official Rules of Card Games' and in John Scarne's 'Encyclopedia of Games'. The rules of ordinary Canasta apply, except for the differences explained below.

Players and Cards

There are 6 players in two teams, sitting alternately. 4 packs of cards are used, including 2 jokers for each pack - a total of 216 cards. All twos and jokers are wild. Red and black threes have special properties as in regular canasta. The values of the individual cards, as in Canasta, are:

Joker	.....	50 points each
Two, Ace	.....	20 points each
K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8	.....	10 points each
7, 6, 5, 4, black 3	.....	5 points each

Deal

The dealer deals 13 cards to each player, one at a time, which the players may look at, followed by a further 11 cards to each, which must not be looked at and are kept in a face-down pile until the player has completed a canasta. The remaining stock of 72 cards is placed face down and its top card is turned face up beside it to start the discard pile.

Play

A turn consists of the following stages:

1. Drawing the top two cards from the stock or taking the entire discard pile.
2. Possibly starting a new meld or adding one or more cards to your own side's melds.
3. Discarding one card from your hand face up on the discard pile.

Melds and Canastas

A canasta is a meld of seven cards. Four types of canasta are possible.

Type	Description	Bonus
Natural (red) canasta	Seven cards of the same rank with no wild cards.	500 points
Mixed (black) canasta	Contains one, two or three wild cards. The remaining cards are all of the same rank (not threes or sevens).	300 points
Wild canasta	Any seven wild cards.	1000 points
Sevens canasta	Seven sevens (no wild cards)	1500 points

A meld can be started with three or more cards and built up to a canasta by adding cards on later turns. No meld may ever contain more than seven cards. If you have completed a canasta, it is permissible for your team to start another separate meld of the same rank.

A mixed meld in course of construction must contain at least two natural (non-wild) cards and cannot contain more than three wild cards. A natural meld can be turned into a mixed meld by adding wild cards to it.

The minimum requirements for a team's initial meld are as follows:

Team's cumulative score	Minimum initial meld
Any minus score	.....	15 points
0 - 4995	.....	50 points
5000 - 9995	.....	90 points
10000 - 14995	.....	120 points
15000 or more	.....	150 points

Bonuses for red threes and canastas do not count towards this minimum - it must be achieved from the value of the cards in the meld.

NOTE: Few books include this game. Two that do are Scarne's Encyclopedia of Games (1973) and the Bicycle Official Rules of Card Games (1994, 1999). Both give the score ranges for the different initial meld requirements as 0 - 495; 500 - 995; 1000 - 1495; 1500+. Comparing these with the typical amount that can be scored in a hand and the target score for the game, it seems certain that this must be a misprint, and the ranges should be increased by a factor of 10, as in the table above. My thanks to Jonny Groves for pointing out this error.

Discarding, freezing and taking the pile

Sevens cannot be discarded unless both teams have completed a canasta of sevens. Any other card, including a wild card, can be discarded.

You can never take the pile if the top card is a wild card or a three.

If the top card of the pile is a natural card and you have two matching natural cards in your hand, you can always take the pile, provided that:

1. You immediately meld its top card together with the two cards from your hand;
2. If your side has not melded before, you must at the same time put down sufficient cards from your hand, in this and possibly other melds, to satisfy the minimum meld requirement. Only after meeting this requirement are you allowed to take the rest of the pile.

If a wild card is discarded, it is placed sideways in the pile, which is then frozen. If the pile is not frozen (i.e. does not contain a wild card buried in it), you can also take the pile if its top card matches one of your team's existing (pure or mixed) melds of fewer than 7 cards, and you must then add the card to the meld. However, if a card is discarded that matches one of your completed 7-card canastas, you cannot take the pile unless you have two matching natural cards of that rank in your hand, and you use these three cards to start a new meld of that rank.

Picking up the Foot

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You are not allowed to look at your face down cand of 11 cards until you have personally completed a canasta - i.e. contributed the seventh and last card to a canasta for your team. When you first complete a canasta in this way, after discarding at the end of that turn, you pick up your 11 face down cards and add them to the cards in your hand.

Red and Black Threes

Anyone who is dealt or draws a red three must immediately place it face up with their team's melds and draw a replacement card from the stock. Red threes do not count towards a team's minimum meld. If a red three is turned up as the first card of the pile after the deal, it freezes the pile, and the first player to take the pile must immediately lay out the red three. At the end, if you have completed your canasta of sevens, each red three you have laid out counts for 100 points bonus. A team which has all eight red threes counts 1000 points instead of 800. If a player has not yet completed a cansta and picked up their 11 card packet (foot), any red threes in the 11 cards count minus 100. If a team has not completed a canasta of sevens by the time the game ends (either because the other team goes out or because the stock is exhausted), all their red threes count minus 100 each (minus 1000 if they have all eight).

Black threes cannot be melded except by a player going out, who can at that point put down three or more of them as a meld (no wild cards are allowed in a meld of black threes). If a black three is discarded, the next player in turn is not allowed to pick up the pile, but as soon as the black three is covered it ceases to have an effect.

Going out and winning

You can only go out when your team has completed all four types of canasta. You must have at least one example of each type - natural, mixed, wild and sevens - completed with 7 cards in each, and you may also have additional canastas or smaller melds of any types. If your team has not satisfied these conditions you are not allowed to play in such a way as to leave yourself with no cards. You may (but need not) ask permission to go out from one of your partners, and if you choose to ask you must do as the partner says. To go out you meld all of your cards, or all except one, which you discard. Your final discard cannot be a seven.

After a player goes out both teams score for all the cards in their melds, plus any bonuses for canastas, and the team that went out scores 100 bonus for this. They subtract the value of all the cards left in their hands, including the 11-card packets (feet) of any players who have not yet picked theirs up. Scores for red threes are added or subtracted as appropriate.

It can happen that no one succeeds in going out before the stock runs out. In that case the play ends at the moment someone wishes to draw cards from the stock, but there are no cards left there. However the game can continue without a stock as long as each player is able and willing to take the previous player's discard. If the game ends because the stock has run out, the hand is scored in the usual way, except that of course that neither team gets the 100-point bonus.

The play can also end if one player has a hand consisting entirely of sevens, but at least one team has not completed its sevens canasta. If possible, you must play to avoid this situation: you are not allowed to meld all your other cards, leaving yourself only with sevens; you must keep at least one legal discard. However, if you discarded your last non-seven on your previous turn, and you then draw two more sevens from the stock pile, you have no way to discard. In this situation you may meld all but one of your sevens (if legal) and then because you have no discard the play ends. Both teams score in the usual way and no one gets the 100-point bonus for going out.

When either team reaches 20,000 points or more at the end of a hand, the team with more points wins. In case of equality, another hand is played.

Railroad Canasta

This section is based on a contribution from Gorgon.

As in Pennies from Heaven, most of the basic rules of Canasta apply. The exceptions are as follows:

Players and Cards

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Two or more people can play and two decks of cards are used per person, including the jokers, of which there may be two or more per deck.

Deal and Play

As in some versions of Hand and Foot, everyone deals their own cards. All the cards are put in a big pile on the table and each player counts out the nember of cards they need: 13 cards for their hand and 11 for their kitty.

For convenience, the stock is arranged into several piles. When you draw from the stock you take two cards. These can be taken from the top of any stock pile(s).

Canastas

Once a meld contains 7 cards, it is a closed canasta, and no more cards can be added to it. If you have three more cards of that rank, you can meld them as a new set.

There are four kinds of canasta:

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• red, consisting of 7 natural cards of the same rank;
• black, consisting of at least 4 natural cards of the same rank and the remainder wild;
• wild, consisting of 7 wild cards;
• seven canasta, which is just that - a canasta of seven sevens.

A closed red or black canasta is indicated by squaring up the cards with a red or black natural card on top.

Picking up the Kitty

You are not allowed to look at your 11 card kitty until after you have discarded for the turn in which you complete your first non-black canasta. At that point you pick up your kitty and add it to your hand.

Red Threes

Red threes never count against a player, always in favour. There is no extra bonus for having all of them - they just count +100 each.

Black Threes

Black threes stop the next player from taking the pile as usual. When going out, and making a meld of black threes, you can have as many as you want - this is the only meld that is not limited to seven cards. You do not count a canasta bonus for a meld of black threes, however.

Going out

To go out, you must have completed at least one 7 card canasta of each of the four types.

You go out by melding all your cards except one, and discarding the last card. You are not allowed to meld everything and leave yourself with no discard. When a player goes out the play ends and the hand is scored.

Scoring

The bonuses are:

• 100 for each red three
• 100 for going out
• 300 for each black canasta
• 500 for each red canasta
• 1000 for each wild canasta
• 1500 for each 7 canasta

The cards you have melded also score their usual values (50, 20, 10, 5) and you subtract points for any cards left in your hand, or in your kitty if you have not picked it up.

Bain Hand and Foot

This version was contributed by Barbara Bain

This game is included here because it has more in common with Pennies from Heaven than with the games described on the Hand and Foot page. It is for 4 players in fixed partnerships using 4 decks of cards complete with two jokers per deck.

Each player is dealt a hand of 15 cards and a foot of 13 cards. Before play begins, you may take one look at your foot of 13 cards, and it must then be set aside face down for later use.

The game continues until one team wins by having a cumulative score of 20,000 or more points. The minimum initial meld requirement depends on your team's score:

Your score	Minimum meld
negative	......	no minimum
0 to 4,999	......	50
5,000 to 9,999	......	90
10,000 to 14,999	......	120
15,000 to 20,000	......	150

In melds you must have more normal cards than wild cards - so there can be up to 3 wild cards in a dirty canasta, and up to two wild cards in a dirty meld of five or six cards.

[It is not stated, but probably, as in other versions of Hand and Foot, a player draws two cards from the stock pile on each turn. We may also assume that the discard pile can only be taken by a player who has two natural cards matching the top card of the pile.]

If a joker or deuce is discarded, it is placed crosswise on the discard pile so that it remains visible when other cards are discarded on top of it. When taking the discard, a player takes all the cards down to and including the next discarded joker or deuce. If there are none, the whole pile is taken.

If you make the initial meld for your team, you are not allowed to complete a canasta until your partner has completed a canasta. Having made a canasta, your partner immediately picks up her 13 foot cards and adds them to her hand cards. You may now complete a canasta and as soon as you have done so you may also pick up your 13 card 'foot' and add it to your hand. Once both partners have made canastas and picked up their foot, both are free to complete further canastas when they wish to, and to go out when they satisfy the conditions.

In order to go out you must have at least:

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• one canasta of seven sevens (no wild cards)
• one canasta of seven wild cards
• one 'black' canasta (that is one which contains 1-3 wild cards)
• one 'red' canasta (that is a canasta without any wild cards)

In addition, you cannot go out until all eight red threes are face up on the table.

To go out, you must be able to meld all your cards except one and discard your last card. You may then (if you wish) ask your partner for permission to go out and must follow partner's decision, [or presumably if you wish to you can just go out without consulting partner].

The bonus scores are:

Canasta of sevens	........	1500
Canasta of Wild Cards	........	1000
Red Canasta	........	500
Black Canasta	........	300
Bonus for going out	........	200
Red Threes	........	100 each

In order for your red threes to count plus 100, you must have a complete canasta of sevens when the play is finished. If you do not, the red threes your side has put on the table will count 100 points each against you.

Once you have your canasta of seven sevens on the table, you may start a 'garbage pile' on your side of the table. In the garbage pile you can meld any cards of ranks for which you already have a complete canasta. The values of the cards in your garbage pile will be included in your final score.

Sevens may never be discarded or placed in the garbage pile. If after completing your canasta of sevens you draw another one you must hold onto it, and it will prevent you from going out, even if you have met all the other requirements. However, if you manage to collect three sevens you may start a second meld of sevens and get rid of them that way. If you reduce your hand to just one seven and you then draw two sevens from the stock, the game automatically ends.

Other Pennies from Heaven Web Pages

Randy Rasa's Rummy-Games.com site includes pages on Pennies from Heaven and the similar game Mexicana.