Canasta is 4 person game using two decks of cards (plus 4 Jokers). Thus there are 8 cards of each value plus 4 Jokers, for a total of 108 cards.
At the start of the game, 13 cards are dealt to each player. The player to the left of the dealer goes first and play proceeds clockwise.
Your goal is to combine three or more like cards (melds) in order to create canastas (group of 7).
The hand ends when the draw pile is empty or a player runs out of cards.
Hands are repeated until a team reaches 8500 points.