Canasta - Online & offline

A fun Canasta game with multiple players that allows for all the thrills of a game of four live people. I really enjoy this app — it is always available on my phone or tablet and allows me to puck up the hand right where I left off! Sometimes it might seem as if the other pair get a better advantage being a computer, but there are also times I get the great cards. Good way to hone your skills.

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i used to enjoy playing this game and it has potential to be a great game. i’m just fed up along with other people in the lack of respect from players on the game. people have to realize it’s a game and not some competition. myself and other players play for fun and to practice or whatever but when you have partners on the game that are telling you how you made a horrible move or use language that they shouldn’t be using on a game and putting partners down it doesn’t make the game fun for anyone at the table. everyone has different ways of playing and are at different levels. it’s getting to the point that if something can’t be done about the disrespect on the game i’m going to be deleting it cause i’m really getting tired of either being disrespected myself or watching other people disrespected. people have to realize that you can’t always win and sometimes you loose but putting people down on a game that’s supposed to be fun is childish and unacceptable. i know some people are going to agree with me and some people are going to be really angry and not agree with it but it’s on them.

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I have played this game for a while, but I have recently gotten so frustrated that I have deleted it from my iPad. I have a couple of sources of frustration: 1. The AI players, both my partner & the opponents, regularly discard a card that would give their team 4 of a kind in an existing meld, which is the minimum required for a canasta. This is not ok when the partnership does not already have a canasta. At other times, they will discard a card that matches a meld that they just made, in the same turn. 2. The number of games where one team gets all 4 red threes is unusually high. In real play, that does happen, but it is very rare. This seems to imply that the shuffling of the double deck is not as random as in the real world. One area of the game that I like is the ability to choose whether or not 5e deck is always frozen. My family has always played with the deck always frozen, but some of the other canasta games available do not allow this to be selected.

Great game. My computer partner does not play like a partner though. Picks up pile and keeps 20 cards in his hand. Most of which we have melded and some are in my hand. Then someone goes out. Stupid. I feel like I am playing alone. Why does the computer meld two cards and discard the third one. Dumb way to play ..someone fixed the game. Hallelujah. So happy to play it again after quitting in frustration. Thanks. 👋

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When trying to kill time, I like to play 2 handed. The bot always gets 4 or 5 canastas while I struggle to get 1. I like to see a statistic on number of natural and mixed canastas made. The bot also takes the discard pile way more often than I can. I tried playing online with others but the others were way too serious and got rather mean if they didn't like your play. I don't need that stress when just trying to relax!