Hand & Foot Canasta: Big Cards

Hand and Foot Canasta — the free card game the way it should be. Unlimited hands, large print cards, and a partner worth playing with.

Hand and Foot is the five-deck Canasta variant American families have played around the kitchen table for generations. This is that game, free, with cards big enough to actually read.

No credits to buy. No betting your way into a game. No timer rushing your turn. Sit down and play as many hands of Canasta as you like, online or offline.

WHY THIS ONE

Big, readable cards
The whole point. Large ranks and bold suit shapes you can read at a glance, plus three text sizes and a four-colour deck option. Nothing on screen is smaller than it needs to be.

A partner you can trust
Your AI partner counts cards, protects clean canastas, and asks before going out — and it tells you why it played the way it did. Three difficulty levels change how well the AI plays, never how lucky it gets.

Nothing hidden
Every deal comes from a seed you can look up in the Fair Play screen, along with a full move-by-move log of the round. The AI only ever receives what you can see: it knows how many cards opponents hold, never which ones.

Play offline, anywhere
No account, no sign-in, no internet needed. Your game saves after every single move, so a phone call or a flat battery never costs you a hand.

Automatic scoring
Canastas, red threes, going-out bonus and leftover cards are added up for you and shown line by line at the end of every round. No paper, no arguments.

HOW IT PLAYS

Classic Hand and Foot: four players in two teams, five decks, eleven cards in your Hand and eleven in your Foot. Draw, meld, discard. Seven of a kind is a canasta — clean if you managed it without wilds. Finish the round when your team has the canastas and your partner has reached their Foot, and remember to ask permission first.

Four rounds, minimum melds of 50, 90, 120 and 150. Deuces Wild variant included.

FOR NEW PLAYERS

Tap a card and you only see the moves that card can actually make, so you cannot play an illegal move by accident. If a card cannot be melded, the game tells you why. Stuck on your turn? Tap Hint and your partner suggests a play. There is also a Watch and Learn mode where four AI players play a full game while you follow along.

MORE

Weekly and monthly leaderboards by difficulty. Lifetime scorecard with win rate, canastas and streaks. Sixty different table companions. Ten languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

Ads appear only between rounds, never during a hand.

WHO IT IS FOR

If you play Hand and Foot with family at holidays and want the same game on your phone. If you already play Canasta apps but squint at the cards. If you want a free card game that works offline on a plane, in a waiting room, or anywhere with no signal. If you grew up on Rummy and Canasta and want the real rules, not a watered-down version.

Large print, high contrast, no timers, no reflexes required.

This game is not affiliated with any other Canasta app.

Recent changes:
Thanks for playing! In this update:
• Redesigned Rankings — gold, silver and bronze for the top 3, plus your own rank and the players around you
• Fixed: "This round, move by move" now scrolls all the way down
• Stability improvements