CANCELLED DEC 3. Learn to Play: “Hand, Foot, Elbow” Canasta

Many of you have enjoyed playing Hand & Foot. In this variation, teams of two play across the table and make up “required” canastas: Five required canastas or sets of seven cards of 5s only, 7a only, Wilds, 1 Clean, and 1 Dirty.

THIS WILL BE A TEACHING DAY We will learn what Canasta hands are and how to play this fun, engaging card game as teams of two.

Those five Canastas are required before a team can go out (additional canastas may be made and in those, can consist of more than seven cards, etc.)
We start with the “hand” of 15 cards. A team may pick up their “elbow” of 13 cards once they’ve closed their first canasta. A player may pick up her “foot” when she has run out of cards to play and then playing through, or after discard, she then may pick up and look at her foot.

Please sign up to come if you have played some version of Canasta or Hand & Foot before. If you have any questions, call me! My telephone number will be in the private comments below.

We will limit today’s play to 4 players initially. It’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’ve played any type of Canasta or Hand & Foot. We play as pair partners to make the canasta sets.

We usually play three or four rounds and it lasts about 3 hours. I will have a printed sheet of our Table Rules.
Seven decks of cards are used for each round. Please add a comment if you’re able to bring a pre-shuffled set of seven decks. If we have more than four players, we could add a second table of four.

Please be mindful of your RSVP as we count on you to attend if you say you will. My telephone number is in the private comments below if you need to reach me.