Canasis Games: Free multiplayer card games online, board games online, and domino games online

Our game software is freeware, meaning it is totally free with no time limit and it offers 2 player up to 4 player games.

Multiplayer Card Games Online: canasta, spades, euchre, pinochle, and hearts

Canasta, pinochle, euchre, spades, and hearts are all available to play online at Canasis in a single multiplayer download. For online canasta card game players, we have modern canasta (normal), drive-thru canasta, traditional canasta, and the ability to customize your own canasta rules. Online spades has traditional spades, modern internet spades, suicide spades, expert spades, African American spades, and the ability to decide your own spades rules. Next, online euchre has normal euchre, English euchre, 32 card kiwi euchre, and the ability to customize your own euchre rules. Online pinochle has both single pack pinochle and double pack pinochle, as well as the ability to mix up your own pinochle rules. Finally, online hearts has several rule variations to play online against other people.

Multiplayer Board Games Online: chess, checkers, and dots

All three of those games (chess, checkers, dots) are available to play online at Canasis. Online checkers has English draughts (normal), simple US Checkers, Italian dama, Spanish dama, german damenspiel, polish draughts, canadian large checkers, Russian shashki, giveaway checkers (also known as losing checkers, suicide checkers), and of course the ability to customize your own rules. For online dots players, we have simple children's dots, square-It (a more grown up game), and the ability to make your own rules.

Multiplayer Domino Games Online

For online domino players, we have normal dominoes, all fives dominoes, no spinner dominoes, best of ten dominoes, and as with all our games, we always have the ability to decide your own rules to play with.

 
 

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Top 10 Reasons To Play Our Multiplayer Games

  1. online games are free (with no time limits)
  2. no long signup needed
  3. many friendly players online now to play against
  4. public chat is clean and vigorously supervised
  5. play thousands of rule styles of each online game (popup list)
  6. easy to use
  7. live free technical support
  8. daily free mini-tournaments and many serious competitions
  9. all online games are in a single download
  10. no slow java loading needed

More Features List

  • change the rules enough to invent new games
  • built-in messenger for convenient private chat
  • built-in color chatting
  • detailed progress stats like your skill rating and winning streaks
  • play 1 to 4 players and even 3-4 teams
  • no boring manuals needed
  • sound effects and voices

If you run a group, league, ladder, or club, you may want to read Why Your Group Should Play Here?

FREE
ONLINE
GAMES

canasta
spades
cribbage
euchre
hearts
pinochle
dominoes
checkers
dots
        Soon..
        chess
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Cribbage

A set of cribbage card games with full sized cards, full scoring charts and game stats. 2, 3 or 4 players can play. With literally thousands of rule variations, you can play many builtin popular cribbage styles or customize your own cribbage rules without having to download separate games. cribbage online
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 Rule Options Chart
You do not have to customize your rules, we have many "point and click" styles of cribbage rules so no experience needed. However, if you choose to customize the rules to your needs, here is a quick chart to help you with the many styles of cribbage we have.

CRIBBAGE OPTIONS Normal 
6 Card
Normal 
5 Card
British 
5 Card
Less Luck 
General
Starting cards 6 5 5 7
Target for drop total 31 31 31 31
Max times to reach to target no limit no limit 1 no limit
Start card is visible Yes Yes Yes Yes
Puts cards in a crib Yes Yes Yes Yes
Loser of previous game in set is next dealer Yes Yes N Yes
Game And Set Scoring
Games in set 1 1 1 3
Game goes up to 121 121 61 121
Games counted if skunked (loser had 61-90 points) 1 1 1 1
Games counted if lurched (loser had up to 60 points) 1 1 1 tie
Hand Scoring
Points for hitting target 2 2 2 3
Points for dropping last card 1 1 1 2
Points for total of 15 during pegging 2 2 2 1
Points for total of 15 during show hand 2 2 2 2
Points for pairs 2 2 2 1
Points for triples 6 6 6 2
Points for quadruples 12 12 12 4
Points for nob (jack of same suit as start card) 1 1 1 0
Points to dealer for jack being start card (heels) 2 2 2 0
Score points for runs Yes Yes Yes Yes
Score points for flushes in hand Yes Yes Yes N
Trade hands with opponents for hand scoring N N N Yes
Points from the crib go to dealer Yes Yes Yes Yes

 Helping Out
MPI is pleased to announce that hearts has been recently added to our game line-up. As with all our games, we have every common version of hearts out there, more than any other site out there.
If you are a hearts fan, we ask that you help spread the word about our new hearts by setting your Messenger status message to "hearts at www.Canasis.com". Thank you to everyone who does this.
 Glossary
  • lead: first card played to start a trick or obligation play
  • rank: highest to lowest card (2, 3, 4, 5..)
  • suit: hearts, hearts, diamonds, clubs
  • trump: highest ranking suit (always hearts)
  • bid: number of points a player must try to score

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