Classic Card Game Canasta

Although a good price and seemingly clear graphics, this game should be avoided. Firstly, one can not configure the AI level of difficulty and the whole program seems rather bare. Then the music is awful and the AI quite frankly, cheats...getting all the melds . Plus one can only play one type(two players) rather than the partnership type to which I am used . The days of the fun Hoyle games are gone and it seems , unless you still have a copy of one of THEIR games(not produced since around 2007 or so) with the endearing and wise cracking opponents you will still be looking for a good canasta game and should keep looking.... NOT recommended.... .

The gameplay cannot be configured. For example, you cannot play against your opponent's melds, nor can you ever pull cards from the discard pile. Key elements of any reasonable Canasta game.

I love the card game of Canasta. This one offered has not worked our the kinks. One of the basic things is does not do is sometimes it doesn't let you pick up the pile. you want. Sometimes too many cards laid down get in the way of others. You can try to ignore the problems and play on through, but it is not really very satisfying. I would recommend Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride as good games.

old fashioned fun

This is a really good Canasta game that doesn't cost very much, but the rules are different than other versions of Canasta I have played. For example the Canasta games I played in the past required you to have a natural Canasta with 7 of the same cards and no wild cards in order to go out and this game doesn't require that.

Card games are good for killing some time. I learned Canasta from Some friends years ago. Each time i play this game I am reminded of them. This is a fun game more than woth the 2 bucks.