Canasta Reviews

this app 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 this app, 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 this app. 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 this app, 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

New complaint - what have you all done to this game. Since the last update when t was changed to make money, you slowed it down. Changing the speed is no longer an option in the settings! I can’t stand how slow it moves now! At lest put that back!

I love playing this app and I love this version the best however I take issue with my partner. If I lay my cards down before my partner and there are some that have four or more natural cards, when it comes around to my partner's turn the bot "dirties" my naturals! It is one thing if my partner is going out I don't care. I just finished a game where I had six natural cards and my partner put a wild card on it!! And didn't go out!! I don't know about other players but this drives me absolutely nuts. Something has got to be done about that. Please!!!!

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 Canasta .

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.

interesting game. learned to play in college many years ago so learning strategy was easy. My partner is pretty stupid at times. evidently the game learns the longer you play. Used to get a lot of wild cards early on, but now i hardly get them. Can go several hands without seeing any in either mine or my partners. Opponents get them almost every hand. Best bug is the opponent throw away card. When playing 4 players if the opponent before me tosses any non face card i will almost 50% of the time pickup the same exact card from the pickup pile. Really annoying. Not very random. And i’ve even had games where i picked up the same card over and over again. Game used to be enjoyable, now seems really buggy.

I like the game and agree with the idiot partner comments, but my biggest complaint is the screen layout. Just today (there must have been another update last night) the screen is now even more cramped to the point where you can't really see the discard pile card denominations. The cards seem larger and my speed preferences have been reset. The scoring bars at the top should be side by side. As they are now, it is difficult or impossible to see the opponents cards when deciding which card to discard. It makes a difference if you discard a card that gives them a natural this app or a this app that has a wild card. I hope the idiot partners and cramped screen are not a ploy to get you to buy the full version. I won't. I wanted to include a picture to show the problems but don't think I can.

I enjoy playing this game of this app 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 this app, 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 this app, 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 this app 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????

This review is just going to be a complaint of the computer player that is your teammate. First, the logic behind their decision to this app 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 this app 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 this app. 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 this app 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 this app players to create teams. I’d love to play against and with people who make moves that make sense.

I really enjoy Canasta. I find it relaxing for the most part. I grew up in a house full of people who played this app. 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 this app. A clean this app without a single wild card is worth 500 points. A dirty this app 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 this app 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.

I love this app and have played it for 30-40 years. I still play it now, on Canasta, 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 this app 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.

I get addicted to this game as I love winning. Not having paid for the difficulty of my opponents nor the skill level of my partner, I still find that I win 99% of the time. I have learned more as I have played as I was only introduced to it over a short vacation one time. Yet, my initial skill level would suggest that I should loose more often. Even though I love winning, I do wish for more challenge. Also, I would appreciate being able to if my opponent’s this app has wild cards to complete it so that I can know how many cards are left for my potential hand. Also, I have wanted to lay a this app if 2s before, which I understand is not only legal, but worth 1000 points, though that is not a viable option in this version….i wish that it were.

I do enjoy Canasta, even if the players are slightly lacking. For example, when my partner uses a wild to add that 7th card to this app then immediately adds an 8th card, being the actual needed card. Way to waste a wild that could've been used to this app 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 this app. Or freezing the pile when everyone is about to go out. Could have used that for another this app 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 this app solo app. That one is a complete and utter mess that makes you want to chuck your device across the room.

Can’t play since iOS iPad update. Can’t play on M1 either. Best this app game. Love ability to choose two cards. One bug you have missed though, which can be annoying. I see no clue as to why it happens so can’t help you there. Many times at the last hand of the game, the game will suddenly end without letting me play my last cards. It doesn’t play them for me and when I’m holding the ability to meld on my last turn, this is very annoying. Also something that annoys me but don’t know if fixable, my partner focuses on making more matches than on playing the 7 th card, seemingly. And at the end of the game I can’t see what cards my partner was holding as it is overshadowed by the game stating it’s over, etc.

Great game! Rules are almost the same as the game I played growing up. My biggest complaint is the layout of the board. Instead of having the score bars stacked on top of each other, making it so you can’t tell if the opponent’s 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, and maybe 10s are “this app’d,” move the red and green bars next to each other so they go across the top of the screen. Also, when either pair gets a natural this app, make the last card shown one of the red cards in the deck. As it is now, the score ticks at the top of each card tell you if it’s natural or mixed, and with the Aces, it’s impossible to tell if it’s a natural or mixed because Aces and 2s are all 20 points. It’s difficult to read sometimes with the current format. Other than that, fantastic game.

I don’t believe for a second that the AI in this game knows how to be a partner. It acts more like an aggressive opponent. Canasta, comes with several other games also. I play spades and euchre also, using this same app. In both situations, the AI partner, is constantly putting Trump on tricks I’ve already won, like it was competing against me. It will Trump my aces almost every time if it can. It also makes bids that are either way over the top and it has absolutely no chance of achieving OR it way underbids. Either way, not good for the human playing Canasta. One more thing I notice all the time with places spades on Canasta. 90% of the time, I get a crappy hand that I can only take 2-3 tricks at best. That happens 90% of the time. There is no way this would happen in normal play. You can almost predict what cards the opponents and your partner will have because it’s so constant at putting those same cards in their hands! Even with all the bad, I still love Canasta.

This game plays nothing like it did 5 days ago before the update. My partner constantly plays cards to the advantage. All the players lay down cards that NO this app player would ever lay down in a thousand games. Sometimes when a card is played that would naturally be picked up, it isn't. Maybe two cards in a row are done like that... and then I get the stack. This would never happen in a real game. This use to play like a real game. Not happy with the stupid changes. It's all a ploy to get me to BUY the upgrade... but why would I do that now that the game is not being played with any sense at all? Hate it.

The game is fun if you want to little something to do to kill time. The main problem with the game is the partner you play with and the people you play against. They’re all computers and they don’t have half a brain as to how they’re playing that game. If they had at least a smart partner for you that would make it better but none of them play according to the way a normal person would play the game. They throw cards when they shouldn’t they throw away wild cards which are ridiculous it’s just makes you want to throw your phone but for the most part it’s a fun way to spend a few minutes.

Though I will keep enjoying Canasta, I have noticed the opposing or AI team is always allowed to pick up the discard pile with having melded previously with a certain suit (aside from wild cards and black threes of course), and even if they do not have said suit in their hands, but the human player team is never allowed the same if they do not have said suit in their hands (after melding that suit). That is, what the AI team is allowed to do is in keeping with traditional rules , but the human player team having to hold onto a few representative cards seems to provide am undue advantage to the opposing team. Anyone else notice the same dynamic or imbalance?

I previously rated the paid version 3 stars because my opponent was a bonehead and made moves that continually caused us to get low scores and lose. Partner was immediately fixed but now the opponents are not the most challenging. This game has the best appearance and playing options of all the games out there.

To the developer: I wish I had the option to pick my opponents skill, and my partners skill. I want a game that’s going to make me think. The only real request I have is to be able to play a 4 player game AND a 2 player game. Adding a hand and foot option would be nice and if you come out with that let me know. Thanks!

This game is the best because it helps me calm down even whenever the other people pick up the stack whenever I am actually needing it to go out. It really comes me down especially when I’m annoyed just an amazing game. this app is one of my favorite games to play even though I’m only 10 I love playing it, my family has almost every night on the card, but can I ask that I can just play by myself with the other people or robots? I don’t really know who else is playing with me, but that’s just the way I can play this app by myself and I really love it