Wikipedia canasta card game
I have always played canasta and 2-player with a rule called acaba. freezing the stack right off the bat kinda slows things down and canasta is already a pretty slow game.
No cite for this but i've played classic 2-player canasta for about fifteen years - one common variant to 2-player canasta (maybe these are 'midwest rules'?) has been that the pile does not get frozen if a red 3 or wildcard is initially turned up - you just keep turning over cards until it's covered. HTH) Punainen Nörtti 07:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC) Two Player Rules (Of course, you cannot discard a red three, but a red three can still be the first upcard of a deal, which is not discarded but turned from the stock. I do not have the Regency Club rules at hand right now, but if I remember correctly, according to them a new card is turned if the initial upcard is a three or a wild card, but only red threes and wild cards freeze the pile. According to the US playing card company rules, the previous scenario happens if the initial upcard is any three or a wild card. According to pagat, if the initial upcard is a red three or a wild card, the pile is frozen, and a new card is turned on the top of the upcard. I checked and the US playing card company rules. This game seems to be well established in New Zealand but I cannot find any mention of it on the internet or on wikipedia, can anyone help? Chuck ( talk) 04:27, 8 April 2010 (UTC) Red vs black three as an initial upcard Has anyone heard of a variation called Bolivia, in this not only is there a canasta but a Bolivia(7 wild cards) and a samba (7 card run). Victuallers 20:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC) Bolivia? There was a small grammar error around " for a different number of cards than " which I have corrected. PurplePlatypus 20:01, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
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