Canasta.

I have written 3 bad reviews. Finally decided to pay for it and hope for the best. Nothing changed. My partner is playing for the other team. So mad that my favorite game, and stress reliever has been ruined. I just want you to save your money. It changes nothing to pay for it. What a waste. Additional: this is my 4th review. Don’t waste your time if you love Canasta. This game was re-programmed to make it a joke. It is by far my favorite game, but it is rigged to make your partner play against you, and for your opponents to lose. The owner/programmer must love the bad reviews. I guess a bad review is better than no review. I now have to stop playing because it is way more stressful to play than the stress that motivated me to play. I hate this game now (only this particular game). No one cares. And note that after I paid for the game, there was an option to “make my partner smarter”. Seriously, why should you have to pay to get that option. And, please note, when I got a new iPad, it doesn’t acknowledge that I paid, so it’s even dumber than I could ever imagine. My partner NEVER takes the cards, even when taking it would give us a natural Canasta. And, so frustrating is my partner will play a wild card to make a Canasta and discard the card that would have given us a natural Canasta, giving up 200 points. This is not fun, and I keep writing reviews thinking the programmer will do something. They won’t. I am done. I am too old to be this upset about a game. Just so sad because it’s the only game I played, and it used to be so much fun.

I just started playing and Canasta isn’t the easiest to learn. This app moves fast and for beginners there is no help button but pop ups during the game but some of them don’t help. For example you have to have a Canasta to play last card, but it doesn’t tell you how many cards in a pile constitutes a Canasta because that can vary according to the rules. You can be directed to a set of rules on google, but it’s lengthy and complicated until you start playing. It’s taken me a while to figure out what’s wild and what the red 3’s are in the corner and what black 3’s mean. There is quit a bit to playing this game but it’s fun and fast once you figure out how to play. Don’t forget to go in settings and turn on the “Can I go out?” Message to your partner like I did. My parents played Canasta a lot with friends when they were first married and broke. They loved the game and I always wanted to learn.

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 the app. 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.