Hand and Foot
Sterling Tuck
There is a card game called Hand and Foot. It is played with 5 decks
and
includes the Jokers. You meld like-cards but not runs. I am looking
for
the rules of the game. Or if you have even heard of the game, let me
know.
Glen Groben
In article <32C489...@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>,
tuc...@postoffice.worldnet.att.net says...
We play a game called hands and feet with 4 decks.
Each player is dealt 2 hands of 7 cards (one is a hand the other a foot).
You can only lay down groups of three or more with jokers and 2's wild. To lay
down initially you must have 60 points with no more than 1 wild per three
cards.
jokers = 50
2's = 25
A's 20
10 - K= 10
4-9 = 5
3's cannot be laid down. balck 3's are worth -5 and red 3's -300.
on a turn a play can either draw from the remaining cards or pickup the entire
discard pile (all or nothing). He does not have to laid card if he does this.
You cannot pick up the discard pile if the person before you discarded a black
3.
Once you have no more cards in your hand then you go to your foot (one stack
then the other). If you discarded to get rid of you last card in your hand, it
is the next persons go. If not you can laid down cards from your foot on cards
already down. You can never play on somebody elses cards. You can always play
more card onto your own. Once someone is out of cards in their foot the hand
is over. Cards left in your hand count against the cards you have on the
table. Red three count -300 toward your score. If you go out without a
discard, everyone else gets one more turn.
If you have any questions E-mail me.
John & Jamelle Bejarano
There is a version of Canasta that I've heard of known as "Hand and Foot"
that only used one hand, but allowed you to draw two cards, a "hand" and
a "foot". It's mentioned on John MacLeod's card-playing site,
"http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/pagat/" under the description of Canasta.
That's a great site for answering a lot of card-related questions.
--John.