
Red canastas are worth 500 points while black canastas are worth 300 points. Black canastas: containing natural and one to three wild cards.Red canastas: containing all natural cards, no wild cards.
Wild cards: Jokers (worth 50 points) and 2s (worth 20 points, also known as “deuces”).Ĭanastas, also known as “books”, are a set of seven (7) cards, all of the same rank (so all 6s or all Queens, etc.). When you play like this you get 100 points for every red 3 in your hand or foot, or that you draw from the Draw Pile, and then get to draw another card as well (sweet!). The second configuration is to play red 3s automatically. The first is that they can be used as a discard and if the other player/team goes out and you have a Red 3 in your hand or foot, then you lose 500 points (ouch!). Red 3s: there are two game configuration settings for Red 3s. If you get caught with a Black 3 in your hand you lose 5 points. Black 3s: can only be used to discard. HFFE allows you to choose how many cards you want dealt when you are setting up a new game. 4-player and 6-player games: 11 cards each in the hand and foot. 3-player games: 13 cards each in the hand and foot. 2-player games: 15 cards each in the hand and foot. The number of players typically determines how many cards are dealt in the hand and foot for each player: Hand & Foot is played with three to five decks of cards, including Jokers, depending on the number of players and number of required canastas. NOTE: 3- and 6-player games coming soon! Cards Four-player games have two teams of two players each, while six-player games have three teams of two players each. With HFFE, you can play a two-player, three-player, four-player or six-player game. … while scoring more points than your opponent(s).
… by melding your cards and forming canastas (a set of 7 cards all of the same rank, such as all 4s or all Jacks).To get rid of all the cards in your hand so you can then play the cards in your foot….Hand & Foot Friends & Family Edition, or HFFE for short, is an online version of the game that allows you to configure the game rules according to the way your family and friends want to play. Players are dealt two sets of cards: one is their hand, and the second is their foot, which is placed face down at first and can only be played after all the cards in the hand have been played. The game is played in four rounds, with each round named based on how many points you have to initially meld, or play on the board, as a team in order to pick up the card pile: round of 50, round of 90, round of 120, and round of 150. Hand & Foot is a popular version of the card game Canasta.
Drawing two cards or picking up the pile.
Types of Canastas/Books and Point Values.Special Rules and Point Values for Cards.