The play begins with the player to dealer's left and continues clockwise. They also block the discard pile for the opponents when discarded. These can be melded in groups (following the normal rules for groups), but only on the turn on which you go out. You may also use the red threes to block the discard pile, in the same manner as you would do with the black threes or the wild cards. If the round is finished and you have one or more red threes in your hand, you will be penalized with 750 points, regardless of the number of red threes that you hold. If you do not have the necessary sambas or canastas to end the game, for every melded red three you receive 100 penalty points. When you are lucky enough to have melded all 6 red threes (or you and your partner together in a 4 or 6 game) you receive a bonus of 1000 points instead of 600 points. Every melded red three is worth 100 bonus points, but only when you have the required two sambas or canastas necessary to end the game. You may meld a red three as a single card, to be eligible for a bonus, but you don't have to. Therefore only five different sambas are possible in a suit, consisting of the ranks: 4-10 5-jack 6-queen 7-king 8-ace. Wild cards and threes cannot be used in a samba. No further cards can be added to a samba. Sequences can be extended to a maximum of seven cards a complete sequence of seven cards is called a samba. A sequence is a set of at least three natural cards of the same suit which are consecutive in rank. The novelty in this game, compared to Canasta, is the fact that you can build sequences. So if I have melded two aces and a joker, I can later start a separate meld consisting entirely of real aces, hoping to make a pure canasta. In Samba, it is legal to have more than one group of the same rank of cards and keep them separate. It is also possible to meld a group, or even a canasta of black threes, but black threes can only be melded on the turn in which the player who melds them goes out. If it contains one or more wild cards, it is a mixed canasta, indicated by stacking the cards with a black card on top.įurther cards, beyond seven, can be added to a canasta, but if you add wild cards to a pure canasta, this degrades it to a mixed canasta. If all the cards in it are natural, it is a pure canasta, indicated by stacking the cards together with a red card on top.
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