how many decks do you need for 4 to 6 people
632694
for canasta - 2 decks for 4 people. I have never played with more than 4 people - would imagine with 6 plus you would add a deck for every 3-4 people.
632695
You need 2 decks of Canasta cards for 4 people. We use 2 decks with 6 people but then you only deal 11 cards instead of 13 to each player.
632696
As best we know is that Classic Canasta uses 2 decks (including jokers) for 2, 3, 4 and more players. With Classic Canasta the number of dealt cards changes with the number of players. eg. 2 players 15 cards dealt, 3 players 13 cards dealt and 4 players 11 cards dealt. There is a version of Canasta that uses 3 decks for 6 players. A Google search on the rules will help you a lot. Hoyle web site has rules as well as many others. Best of fun to you...
2000752
Nothing other than size. There are about 4 times as many cards in the actual game. But the expansion packs have a substantial number of cards. Plenty for 3 to 5 people to play for several hours.
1321195
2-4 according to the rules. There are enough pieces for 5, but the gameplay would probably be chaotic.
1173556
I would say 4 to 6 just depending on size. We have a party of 2 years old's and we had 10 under the chute just fine.
1921969
Yes, but as with all munchkin gams is better. I would reccommend playing with a group of 4-5 but 2 is doable. It may be more tricky though.
1852397
Seven people can play the party pack? I had to do some research myself on it before I purchased this one.
1276597
I'm going to say no. I think (whether the game says it or not) you need at least three people. But I would go even further and say to have some real fun with this game, you need at least four people.
1368506
3 or more. Although, I tried with 3 and found that it probably works best if you have more than 3 (5-6 players would be a lot more fun). To be fair, we didn't follow all the rules to the letter (mainly bc the rulebook is so long).
1763191
We've used 2 decks for six players and it worked well. The only draw back is that your draw card pile will go down faster, so making a canasta is much more challenging even with a partner.
1684477
I usually use 5 decks of cards, but don't see any issues with shuffling fewer decks.
1699865
Since we play with between two and four decks depending on what we are playing I would say it can take a whole deck on each side. I may be off a little one way or the other. Unit works well. We are using std size cards
1026401
I think 3 is too few (not enough interaction). I'd say 4-5 players gives plenty of interaction without too much waiting around between turns.
2103577
One deck more than the number of players. 5 decks for 4 players. 7 decks for 6 players
199663
You can use a standard deck of 52 cards. I haven't opened the packs that came with the game and we play it all the time.However, the face cards that came with the game have cute faces--a friend has the game and I've seen his cards.
2232154
No way! I've played with up to 8 people which takes a while. The optimum number of players is 3-6 in my opinion.
957587
I would say 4 players. With any less than that, it's easy to guess who is who and makes some of the 'good' cards not as good because everyone can reach each other. We have played with 3 people, but the game was over in about 20 minutes. We've also played it with 15 people before (we had double decks and the expansion packs) and that was just crazy! I would say that the ideal number is between 5 and 8.
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A 60 card deck with a 15 card sideboard will fit comfortably, you may be able to get 80 or so in total, if you had to. This is assuming they are all in ultra-pro sleeves.