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?

Is this a dominoes game you can play online?: Yes
Force Forfeit?: No! and never will be
Options for Dominoes?: Of course, 500,000 rule variations!

Do I have to join anything?: No!
Fastest way to learn?: Always click on "?" buttons to label the screen.
Can I bring my Yahoo buddies here?: Yes
Is it like Yahoo?: Lobby is similar, using mouse and creating tables are different.

A list of dominoes groups run by players we are proud to host at Canasis. Interested in creating or bringing a league or club here? Email us.

A quick chart to help you with the many styles of dominoes we have. Remember, you can customize the rules to your needs.

RULE OPTIONS	NORMAL	ALL FIVES	NO SPINNER	BEST OF TEN
Spinner Rules
Player with largest double plays first	Yes	Yes	N	Yes
Player who drops last domino goes first next hand	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spinner (double) piece with 4 open ends	Yes	Yes	N	Yes
Count cross-wise ends of spinner for points	N	N	N	N
Scoring Rules
Number of starting dominoes	5	varies	5	5
Game goes up to	200	varies	200	100
Points when board count is multiple of 5	Yes	Yes	Yes	N
Finish current hand even if game points reached	N	N	N	N
Minimum of 10 points	N	N	N	N
Points for opponent's hand when going out	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Round points to nearest 5 points	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Subtract points from partners's hands	N	N	N	Yes
Basic Rules
Highest domino number (maximum pips)	6	varies	6	6
Use boneyard when blocked (can not move)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The below features are on our dominoes todo list but we do not know for sure if or when they will be finished.

• roman numbers bone graphics option
• "allow skip turn if can't make move" rule option
• 1-2 nice backgrounds
• dominoes sound pack
• a couple animations
• add "chickenfoot" style
• add "moon" style

There are several ways to help us get dominoes going: email, chat, talk, or whatever else you prefer. We can always use assistance in helping new players learn to play Canasis Dominoes. The more players we get, the better Dominoes can become and the more features we add. The biggest thing we need assistance in is getting more players over here.

If you are part of a Yahoo dominoes club, feel free to represent your club in Canasis Dominoes by helping others in your club out and passing on their comments and suggestions to us. If you do this, please do let us know so we can give you credit for it and when it comes time to setup our own clubs we will know who to contact.