What are the hand and foot card game instructions? This version of canasta is played with two card games, one hand and one foot, unlike the traditional canasta which is played with only one hand. These are your basic rules of the game.
In Hand and Foot, you choose a partner and sit in front of him. You will work as a team to beat the other team. First you shuffle five or six decks together, including the jokers, and deal 11 cards to each player. This becomes your hand. Deal 11 more to each player face down, this will be their foot and cannot be looked at until all the cards in their hand have been played. Place the rest of the cards in the center of the table and turn over the first card.
The player to the left of the dealer will pick up 2 cards from the draw pile and, to end his turn, place one on the discard pile. Alternatively, you can pick up cards from the discard pile instead of picking up two new cards from the draw pile, but you must be able to use the card below and it must be used during that turn.
The object of the games is to get rid of all the cards in your hand and then all the cards in your foot. This is done by merging. A combination is a set of three to seven cards of equal rank placed face up on the table. A combination cannot have less than three cards.
After placing a combination of three or more cards, continue adding until there are seven. Then it becomes a Book. You can combine cards of any rank from A, K, Q … up to 3.
On hands and feet, Deuces and Jokers are crazy. They can be used in combinations as long as there is at least one more real card than jokers in the combination. You cannot have just one combination of wildcards. There are two types of combinations. A clean combination has no jokers and can turn into a red book. A dirty mix has wild cards and can become a black book.
The melds are placed face up for all to see, while the whole books are stacked face down and a card is placed on top, face up to show the type, a red card for a clean red book, a black card for a dirty black book. Cards of equal rank can be played in whole books, but jokers cannot be played in books.
You get points for cards in combinations and books. If he didn’t come out, he loses points for the cards in his hand and foot at the end of the game. Hand and foot card games end when someone gets rid of all the cards in their hand and foot.