Canasta. Hack 4.1 + Redeem Codes

I just started playing and Canasta isn’t the easiest to learn. This app moves fast and for beginners there is no help button but pop ups during the game but some of them don’t help. For example you have to have a Canasta to play last card, but it doesn’t tell you how many cards in a pile constitutes a Canasta because that can vary according to the rules. You can be directed to a set of rules on google, but it’s lengthy and complicated until you start playing. It’s taken me a while to figure out what’s wild and what the red 3’s are in the corner and what black 3’s mean. There is quit a bit to playing this game but it’s fun and fast once you figure out how to play. Don’t forget to go in settings and turn on the “Can I go out?” Message to your partner like I did. My parents played Canasta a lot with friends when they were first married and broke. They loved the game and I always wanted to learn.

I was having trouble with the game in that my partner computer seemed to be weird and was playing against me rather than with me so I unloaded the game and reloaded it and at first the partner computer was doing well. Then it changed. My opponents were getting 7 or more cards dealt to them in the initial deal so that they were playing complete sets of 2 or 3 numbers off of the initial deal and two games in a row my partner only laid down cards that the opponent team could use with 2 and 3 black threes in its hand. I can play with a dumb computer partner but when the computer partner is playing every card it shouldn't be I get really upset. If this is supposed to make me want to spend money on the upgraded version it's not working. Before I found that if I aborted the game and restarted that I could sometimes get a computer partner that wasn't so dumb but when the game keeps reverting to a partner that plays against me I just want to delete the app.

Previous review pasted here
I was really enjoying this game and was playing it all the time then the programming seemed to go haywire and my computer partner started acting will it was partners with the right opposing partner. It was throwing only cards that would play on the opposing team and the opposing partner on my left was only throwing cards that I needed. Went from a 95% win rate to 45% wins. Weird.

This game just seems off. I’ve manually counted the cards in the opponents hand and the game doesn’t count correctly at all. 2-tens are 20 points, 2-nines are 20 points, 1-queen is 10 points, 1-jack is 10 points, 1-eight is 10 points, and 1- five is 5 points. That’s 75 points! Yet the score board counts it as -65 points. And when it’s the other way around, I get an extra -10 penalty.
Your teammate is constantly throwing out cards that can be used to go out when it can be used for more points, I’ve played 50 games so far and won 100% of the time. It just seems a bit too easy to win without paying money to buy the medium and hard modes. Another point I have is when you are able to pick up out of the discard pile. It says you need 2 cards or more of the same rank. But same rank is considered by what points the cards are. 3-7 is 5 points, 8-K is 10 points and A is 20 points. Good. But when you have 2 Jacks and your partner has put down Jacks already and you have a King and a Queen, only 70% of the time can you pick up the card from the discard pile. Extremely frustrating when the discard pile has more than 10 cards in it too. This game can be so much better.

I love this game and play at least one game every day. But since I responded to an update request - although it wasn’t really a ‘request’ as I couldn’t continue to play without responding! Now I’ve lost my 8 yr history status on this game! And the ‘update’ is not as user friendly! There were many ‘glitches’ with the original game which were very frustrating and many players commented on them already but it was fun to play - not so now and all my info is gone! Bummed! Also, I can no longer change how high a final score I would like to play to. And can’t request a more difficult level of play without ‘purchasing’ points!!! What’s up with that? Very disappointed in this so called update. May have to look into something else! Wish the ‘glitches’ could have been fixed in the original version as I could play longer or shorter games using more or less cards, loved having the options - unfortunately now we don’t unless we make a purchase of each one individually, disappointing!

I do enjoy this app, even if the players are slightly lacking. For example, when my partner uses a wild to add that 7th card to canasta then immediately adds an 8th card, being the actual needed card. Way to waste a wild that could've been used to canasta another pile.. Or picking up the deck for 5 points when we are about to go out, adding 20-30 extra points at least to their hand, thus losing us points.
All the players seem to love giving the opponents cards that bring them to 6 and near a canasta. Or freezing the pile when everyone is about to go out. Could have used that for another canasta or to go out yourself. Sigh... fun game but frustrating at times. Stupidity makes for less of an enjoyable game.

HOWEVER, this one is hell of a lot better than the canasta solo app. That one is a complete and utter mess that makes you want to chuck your device across the room.

I really enjoy this app. I find it relaxing for the most part. I grew up in a house full of people who played canasta. I now know very few people who know the game or want to take the time to learn it. My only complaint is that I wish the technology team would come up with some programming to make the computer partner smarter. For example, you need 7 cards for a canasta. A clean canasta without a single wild card is worth 500 points. A dirty canasta with 1 or more wild cards is worth only 100 points. If I have one book of six that has a wild card in it, and one book of six that has no wild cards in it, the computer should be smart enough to choose which one to make a canasta when it plays a wild card as the 7th card. So why wouldn’t the computer play it’s wild card on the book already containing wild cards rather than “dirtying” up a clean book that has no wild cards — which means a chance at 500 points just went out the window.

Canasta is my favorite card game. I am getting extremely frustrated with my partner. She will very often play into our opponents hands, the piles they have played. In other words if our opponents are saving 4’s to make a Canasta, she will lay down a 4 on the discard pile. Also many, many times our opponent before her will discard that is a player on ours and my partner picks up from the pile, totally ignoring the card the opponent discarded. Wish there was an option to choose between different partners . Please try to fix the problem of the very lousy partner. TY I am happy that you show the number on the pile of cards so you know how many you need to make your Canasta. The old way made it difficult to figure out! Would you consider giving us different partners to choose from. I am tired of swearing at the partner I have. I really like canasta, play almost everyday but it is becoming much more frustrating.

Can you fix this game so we can change partners. I can’t stand the one I am playing with now, she,he makes horrendous mistakes rthat cost us the gams

I love canasta and have played it for 30-40 years. I still play it now, on this app, at least a few times a week.

It’s a great app with only one fault: periodically your computer “partner” chooses an oddball strategy of ridding itself of every playable card in their hand, going out as soon as they can instead of racking up points to 500 to win. And no wild cards are held to complete canastas later. This is a loss of natural canastas and points.

For instance, if they have three 7’s in their hand, they’ll put down three 7’s and a wild card. Then a few rounds later are unable to finish that canasta as a natural (all 7’s and worth 200 more points) because they used a wild card unnecessarily. This has changed my playing considerably and isn’t as much fun. However, even with that crazy algorithm, I still enjoy playing.

This review is just going to be a complaint of the computer player that is your teammate. First, the logic behind their decision to canasta is flawed. We will have just begun to play, have six natural in a suite, and he will throw a wild card on it. There’s 200 points lost. Even more frustrating, is when the pile is locked, and they throw the card that could complete a natural canasta on the pile.

My favorite is when they actually ask me if they can go out, if I say “not at this time”, they will go out anyways. Especially if there is a single card in the pile. Computer partner LOVES picking up that deck… unless the opposition has laid down a card that would actually complete a canasta. Then all the sudden, they just don’t want the extra cards. 🙄

Another cool thing the AI partner does is discard a wild card that could have been used to make a canasta before going out, and instead plays a 5 or 10 point card on a stack of 3.

If I actually do end up paying for more difficulty, would my partners skill increase also? Because I can’t imagine having that sabotaging AI against more difficult computer opponents.

You guys should introduce an online mode. Allow real canasta players to create teams. I’d love to play against and with people who make moves that make sense.

I enjoy playing this game of canasta AND...

Often it seems the “person” programmed to be my partner plays against me, is a liability, plays to the “opponents” hand, or just does not get the game! Refuse my no, when I tell “do not go out.” Two year later, this bug is not fixed!!!!!! When asking to go out and I say no, it very often will ignore me, leaving me with lots of points, a few wild cards, etc. it asks to go out often and seems obsessed in only going out.- when tied, with one canasta, just after I picked up the huge cards tossed deck, etc.

Today the game just quit the game in mid hand of everyone having cards, a huge pile of cards to draw from and the “opponent” playing a card my team could pick up.

I love the game of canasta, am grateful it exists——but these bugs are a huge deterrent. Please fix asap/

THIS GAME IS BROKEN; PLEASE FIX. “Programmed partner” asks to go out. I say no; sitting with an amazing hand. Program is set go out anyway, losing us valued wins.....

Why aren’t these programmed bugs fixed by now?

Now playing canasta for two; game goes roue- suddenly quits as if a win, with me holding cards and “other” player holding cards too. Game broken a few times?

Are you fixing it????