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The canasta must contain at least seven natural cards (this is called the base). Seven or eight of a kind, with no wild cards, is called a natural canasta (or pure canasta); A set of seven or more containing of a kind, and one to three wild cards, is called a mixed canasta.
1 Taking a discard pile that only contains one card is never allowed if you only have one card in your hand. 2  When there are no more cards on the stock a special situation occurs: 3  1. 4  If the discard pile is not frozen and you can add the top discard to one of your melds, you must take that top discard. You score points by melding cards, and making as many canastas as possible. 2  A canasta is a meld of at least seven cards of the same rank. 3  Each player starts with 15 cards in hand. 4  Yours are visible at the bottom of the window.