Multiplayer Canasta FOR MAC

Multiplayer Canasta is a challenging card game played by 4 players with two decks of cards and 4 jokers, you and the player sitting opposite are partners.

At the start of a hand 11 cards are dealt to each player, and then one card is turned from the stock cards to form the discard pile.

In Multiplayer Canasta, 2 and jokers are wild cards, and the basic objective of this game is to form melds. A meld is 3 or more cards of the same rank with at most 2 wild cards and at least 2 natural cards (non wild cards).

When a meld is formed, it is laid out on the table for everyone to see. During a player's turn, he can either take the top card from the stock pile, form melds if he can, and then discard a card to the discard pile; or use the top card from the discard pile to form a meld with cards on his hand or with existing melds, and then take the entire discard pile, and then form melds if he can, and then discard a card to the discard pile.

The total score affects the required points for the first meld in a hand, which is 50 if the team has total points below 1500, 90 if the team has total points below 3000, and 120 if the team has total points equal to or above 3000. The game ends when one team gets more than 5000 points, and the team with higher score wins.