Players drawing equal cards or jokers must draw again.
Only for the draw, suits rank: Spades (high), hearts, diamonds, clubs. The player drawing the highest card has choice of seats, plays first in the first deal, and has the player drawing the second-highest card as their partner. Partnerships may be determined by drawing cards from the deck. A wild card is melded only with natural cards and then becomes a card of that same rank. Canasta, a game of the Rummy family was the most popular American game in the early 1950s.
