Do these Cards come with rules 'How to Play Canasta'?
2009395
Yes, the rules of the game are included with the card set. This is a very nice set of Canasta cards. I especially like that the value of the cards is printed right on the cards so you don't have to refer to the rules to see them. Nice for kids while they are learning which cards to get rid of, and which to keep...:)
1404808
Actually, I believe it does not. It's been almost a year since we played, but I remember having to take the money from our old 80's version. Also, check the errata documents. The starting IPC values on the cards for two countries (I think UK and Japan) do not match the actual values. There are some misprints.
712987
Hello. I purchased the cards but cannot remember that instructions were in the box... the box is very small and so I do not recall instructions... however, you can find instructions all over the internet and this is one site to help you out with Scopa and Briscola! Enjoy, http://www.seeyouinitaly.com/italian-card-games/
249820
Yes it does, however the set content is subject to change. That means while those cards are within the set, you are not guaranteed to get those cards when you buy one package.
1920367
Depending on the game. When I play UNO with the grandchildren, a couple of shuffles. Canasta with adults, depending on how many decks, 3 or 4 shuffles with a larger shuffler Love my shufflers! So do the children.
632696
As best we know is that Classic Canasta uses 2 decks (including jokers) for 2, 3, 4 and more players. With Classic Canasta the number of dealt cards changes with the number of players. eg. 2 players 15 cards dealt, 3 players 13 cards dealt and 4 players 11 cards dealt. There is a version of Canasta that uses 3 decks for 6 players. A Google search on the rules will help you a lot. Hoyle web site has rules as well as many others. Best of fun to you...
485122
There really aren't any rule changes in the basic game, just more of everything; more spaces, more 'chance' cards, more money..you get the picture.There is an extra die for a fast game, but we like the longer versions so I'm not sure about rule changes there.
1270723
A game played using this card would go by the same basic rules published by the NMJL for how American Mah Jongg is played. This just gives you additional hands that can be created, which vary from the NMJL card, with some really fun twists which is a nice break sometimes from the "official" card. As far as I know, any published card in the U.S. goes by the basic rules of the NMJL. Each group is still free to establish some of their own table rules as they wish.
1869059
Coup comes with a set of 6 "cheat sheets" (as I like to call them), the deck of cards (15 cards total, 3 cards for each of the five roles), the coins (I've not counted, but there are plenty), and the instruction manual. The "Cheat Sheets" are there to tell you what each of the roles can do, as well as what other options players have on their turn.​
635448
They can be mixed in with the normal Cards Against Humanity set but the "backs" do read differently. The black and white cards have "Crabs Adjust Humidity" on the back but it is not obvious.
1774423
We play it just like regular canasta but the game can be played Caliente as well. Instructions are included.
314985
Not that I've seen, but they're all fairly random anyway with lots of insta-wins and insta-loses, so they wouldn't do you much good even if you saw them. For instance, playing attack penguins against another player, allowing you to steal one of their cards. Or arbitrarily declaring that you receive 8 points and that having 15 points is a new win condition. Or if several people lose in one turn, declaring that you all lost because of a player you pick as the "noob", so only that one person loses and everyone else is back in. Or playing a dragon against another player, which causes them to lose if they can't get rid of it before the end of their turn. Or forcing everyone to scream in fear about zombies before they draw a card. Or declaring that anyone who says, "I", "me", or "my" loses instantly. The Chaos Pack that comes with it had some funny twists, such as allowing anyone who gained points (points are entirely arbitrary) to point at another player and make them lose instantly, so long as that other player wasn't singing. One low point was that some of the cards were repeated, except that the lose condition was changed. In a game I played yesterday, three of us thought we had an identical card telling us to have each player use their fingers to display a number from 1-5, but we discovered that each of us had a different lose condition written on the card (e.g. anyone picking odd loses, anyone picking even loses, if the total is prime everyone else loses). It means that people who have played it before have no real advantage, but it's still a bit uncreative to have something like that repeated several times (there are similar cards for rock, paper, scissors and other such things, where anyone picking X instantly loses).
914589
Yes but I got ripped off with 2 used decks of regular playing cards, not canasta cards as shown!
233872
YES! they have a double backed card, blue is honestly ALOT nicer than red, i have both and only blue comes with a double backed card. i love pulling off tricks with it. also u will; love how the kings and the other royal cards are blue, like blue numbers and cloths its really nice, same for the red that really brings the other decks down. REALLY GOOD PRODUCT 5/5
1763190
Six hand canasta....the rules of 4 handed apply, except as follows: There may be 2 partnerships of 3 players each, seated A B A B A B, each player seated between 2 opponents, OR, there may be 3 partnerships of 2 players each, seated A B C A B C. A triple pack is used.....three 52-card packs plus 6 jokers, all shuffled together....13 cards dealt to each player. When there are 3 partnerships, game is 7,500, when there are 2 partnerships, game is 10,000m and when a side reaches 7,000, it needs 150 for its initial meld. Four red 3's count only 100 each; 5 red 3's 1000 each in all and six red 3's is 1200. A side needs 2 canasta to go out. This info was extracted from Official Rules of Card Games. Jim
199663
You can use a standard deck of 52 cards. I haven't opened the packs that came with the game and we play it all the time.However, the face cards that came with the game have cute faces--a friend has the game and I've seen his cards.
1451893
The game comes with a ton of cards. I ordered the first expansion pack after getting the full game. I plan on ordering them in order(1-5) but it really doesn't matter.