Samba canasta

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Samba-Canasta or Samba for short is a variant of the Canasta game that is played with three packets. The official rules were written by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford , two outstanding bridge and backgammon masters and game experts, in 1949/51.

Rules of the game according to the Official Canasta Laws of the Regency Whist Club New York

The name of the game Canasta (span .: basket) is derived from the fact that the cards of the pile and the discard pile are placed in a so-called card basket ( canasta tray ). In this picture, the discard pile contains a wild card and is therefore frozen .

The rules of the Canasta game for four apply - as stipulated in the Official Canasta Laws - as well as the changes and additions described below:

  • It is played with three standard games of fifty-two cards each plus six jokers (a total of 162 cards, including eighteen wild cards).
  • Each player receives fifteen cards.
  • The players draw two cards and discard one card. If a player takes the discard pile, he does not draw a card from the pile this round.
  • Sequences (reports from three or more consecutive cards of the same suit ) may be reported. A wild card or a three may never be used in a sequence. The top card of the heap may be combined directly with a previously reported sequence. A sequence is limited to seven cards. A complete sequence canasta is placed face down. The bonus for a sequence canasta is 1,500 points. ( Editor's note : Sequence canasta are also known as samba .)
  • No more than two wild cards are allowed in a message, and no wild card may be added to a canasta.
  • A partnership may interpret more than one message of the same rank.
  • The discard pile cannot be taken by placing a card of the same rank as the top card of the pack and a wild card on the table; Neither if the top card can be placed next to a canasta (except with a pair of natural cards of equal rank that are placed out of hand).
  • A game ends at 10,000 points. If 7,000 points are reached, the minimum requirement for the initial registration is 150 points.
  • Two canastas are required for a player to make out. ( Editor's note : For making out, a sequence counts like a canasta.)
  • Three, four, five or six black threesomes may be reported from the hand in the course of the negotiation.
  • Bonus for making out: 200 points. There is no covert spot bonus; Likewise, covert identification does not change the minimum requirement for the initial report. If a party has reported two canastas, it receives a bonus of 100 points for every red three and an additional 400 points for every six red threes. If either party does not have two canastas when the game ends, the corresponding points will be deducted.

additions

In Samba Canasta, reports of exclusively wild cards are not officially permitted, nor are they permitted in the game with two packages, but these are very often permitted in the game with three packages. You then add three jokers to each pack of cards (i.e. you play with 165 cards) and the following applies:

  • a real joker canasta (seven real jokers) is worth 4,000 points
  • a real two-canasta (seven twos) is worth 3,000 points
  • a mixed joker canasta (joker and twos) is worth 2,000 points

Furthermore, additional conditions often apply to the use of wild cards.

The rules of the three-pack game vary much more than those of the two-pack canasta; all the points listed under Variants of the Canasta Game should therefore be clarified before starting a game.

Further rule variations concern, for example

  • the sharing: sometimes additional face-down cards are added to the first package as a so-called surprise
  • the assessment of the ace canasta (pure: 1,000 points, mixed: 500 points)
  • the requirements for making out (and related)
  • the evaluation of the red threesome
  • the end of the game (15,000 points instead of 10,000, the thresholds for the various minimum points when opening are then 4,000, 8,000 and 12,000 points)

literature

  • English
    • Official Canasta Laws , Adopted by the Regency Club and the National Canasta Laws Commission as the Official Canasta Laws. The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia. Toronto Third printing 1951
    • John R. Crawford : Canasta , JCS Associates, New York, 1950 and: Faber and Faber, London, 1951
    • John R. Crawford: Samba Three Deck Canasta , Arrco Playing Card Co., Chicago, 1951
    • Charles H. Goren: Goren's Canasta Up to Date , Permabooks, New York, 1951
    • Oswald Jacoby : Oswald Jacoby's Complete Canasta , Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1st Edition, New York 1950
    • Oswald Jacoby: Oswald Jacoby's Revised Complete Canasta , Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1st Edition, New York 1951
    • John McLeod: Canasta [1]
    • Albert H. Morehead, Richard L. Frey, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: The New Complete Hoyle Revised Doubleday, New York, 1991
    • Albert H. Morehead, Geoffrey Mott-Smith: Hoyle's Rules of Games 2nd revised edition. A Signet Book, 1983
    • Ottilie H. Reilly: Canasta and Samba , 1951
    • Alfred Sheinwold: 1951 Canasta - With Samba and the New International Laws , Wellington Associates, New York, 1951
  • German
    • Rudolf Heinrich [d. i. Rudolf Bretschneider]: Samba-Canasta with 3 packages , Verlag Perlen-Reihe , Volume 652, 6th edition, Vienna 1973

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