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 euchre game you can play online?: Yes
Force Forfeit?: No! and never will be
Options for Euchre?: Of course, thousands of rule variations/styles!

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

RULE OPTIONS	NORMAL	ENGLISH	32 CARD   KIWI
Start Of Game Rules
Joker (benny, best bower) included in deck	No	Yes	No
Lowest cards included in deck	9	9	7
Starting cards	5	5	5
Scoring Rules
Game goes up to	10	11	11
Tricks needed to save (make)	3	3	3
Super-euchred, defender gets all tricks (4 points)	No	No	No
General Rules
Kitty cards offered as trump	1	1	1
Allow picking kitty suit even after kitty cards passed	No	No	No
Stick the dealer if all players pass	Yes	No	No
Allow going alone (worth possible bonus points)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dealer's partner can "order up" alone	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dealer's partner can "order up"	Yes	No	No
Must follow lead suit if possible	Yes	Yes	Yes

In most types of normal euchre (excluding many types of "bid euchre"), you do not get points for how many tricks you score, you get points for meeting the minimums or achieving certain goals. Here is a simple chart for newbies to use as reference. For some styles of euchre scoring changes. Most notably, super-euchred scoring only applies if that option is turned on. For playing without partnerships, the "with partner" points are used, not the alone points.

Goal Achieved		With Partner	Going Alone
maker march (wins all tricks)		2 points	4 points
maker saves (usually by winning 3 or more tricks)		1 points	1 points
defender euchred maker (maker did not save)		2 points	4 points
defender super-euchred maker (defender march)		4 points	4 points

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

• cut-throat style
• "dirty clubs" style
• bid euchre, and many games related to bid euchre
• no-ace no-face style
• railroading style (passing 1 card when going alone)
• euchre sound pack
• a couple animations

There are several ways to help us get euchre going: email, chat, talk, or whatever else you prefer. We can always use assistance in helping new players learn to play Canasis Euchre. The more players we get, the better Euchre 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 euchre club, feel free to represent your club in Canasis Euchre 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.