Use the easy score reference sheet as a guide for entering scores for up to 3 players or 3 Teams and 8 rounds of play on each sheet. Every Canasta is worth 500 if it has no wild cards, or 300 if it is a mixed Canasta, with wild cards. Players can discard specific cards to affect the discard pile. Barry is also the author of the previous editions of Card Games For Dummies. Scoring comes in both bonus points and card points. The game is played to a score of 8,500 and has many variations. You can discover what your opponents dont want by what they throw away and by what they dont pick up from the discard pile.\r\n\r\n![](\"https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=15097263&cv=2.0&cj=1\")
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