How To Play Hand & Foot Canasta
Learn how to play Hand & Foot Canasta with training resources from expert players. Be sure to first sign up here to create a free Hand & Foot Friends & Family Edition account. And we recommend talking a quick look at our online Tutorial just after you sign up.
Loved your video tutorials!! Thanks so much for sharing some of your tips for playing more effectively. I had been testing out some strategies lately with some not so good results so I welcomed hearing about practiced strategies that can help. Even though I had figured out a few of them, I felt more confident that I was making better choices and playing was more fun. Thanks again.
Rebecca, HFFE Member Since September 2021
Training Videos
In these videos (Training Games 4473 – Rounds of 50, 90, 120, and 150) you will learn…
- How to start a new game
- Overview of the Game Board
- Basic strategy for how to play 2-player Hand & Foot Canasta games
- How to discard
- Why it’s important to pick up the pile
- How to increase your game score
- How to trick your opponent into giving you the pile
- How to “sandbag”
- How to cultivate your hand so that you can meld all the cards in one turn and get your foot
- Why it’s important to go out before your opponent can get their foot
- How to decide when to go out versus staying in the round to build more points