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Card game similar to Rummy, played with two packs of cards. Usually with four players in two partnerships who seek to 'meld' sets of seven cards of the same rank to clear their hand. Variants exist for other numbers of players.

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Canasta pick up from discard pile

Yes Unless the discard was a three or a wild card. Those can never be picked up when they are on top of the pile. http://www.canasta.net/canasta_rules.php
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Canasta, frozen, ONLY allowed to pick up to the wild card? Not whole pack, what?

I don't have quite your depth of experience, but I've played Canasta over 40 years in New York, Ohio, and Texas. … While I've played different variants of Canasta with different groups, picking the whole discard pile is what I would consider to be a core feature of a Canasta game. …
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In Canasta, if the discard pile has already been frozen with a wild card, is a subsequent di...

I've played several different variants of canasta, but the above rules are the same. Here is one set of rules for Canasta, I'm not aware of an official set of rules from a universal governing body. … https://bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/canasta/ …
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Is there another good 3 player variant of Canasta?

Hand and Foot While I'm not a huge fan of this variant, everyone else in my family is and it is now the only version of canasta played regularly for us. …
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