Updates

Every release, logged honestly. Currently v0.5.0.

• v0.5.0

  2026-08-28
  • NEW The Card Shop: seven deck backs, four card styles, five table felts — and every deck can be gifted to a friend by email.
  • NEW Club Membership: every cosmetic unlocked, plus your full online match history.
  • NEW Online games now count — wins and games played show on your home screen.
  • NEW This very website.
  • IMPROVED High Contrast card style is free, forever. Squinting is not a game mechanic.

• v0.4.0

  2026-08-28
  • NEW Canasta Club has a face: the seven-letter-cards logo, on the site, the tab icon, and the app.
  • NEW Android app — the whole club in your pocket.
  • NEW Melding jokers? You now choose exactly which meld they join. Strategy restored.
  • NEW House rule: a natural pair takes the pile — no forced meld, no opening-minimum gate.
  • IMPROVED Big hands now compress to fit your screen instead of marching off the edge of it.
  • IMPROVED Hover a buried card and it pops to the front. Your click hits what you aimed at.
  • FIXED The disabled Take Pile button now explains itself instead of just sulking.

• v0.3.0

  2026-08-27
  • NEW Accounts (email now; Apple and Google on the way) and online tables with 4-letter codes.
  • NEW Live multiplayer: hidden hands, enforced turns, and your seat waits through a dropped connection.
  • FIXED It was possible to meld yourself into a corner with one unplayable card. The rules now politely refuse to let you.
  • FIXED Same trap via taking the pile — also closed. We fuzz-tested seventy full games to find these.

• v0.2.0

  2026-08-27
  • NEW Every table size: heads-up, 3-player cutthroat, 4-player cutthroat, and classic partnership with shared team melds.
  • NEW Pass-and-play for 2–4 humans on one phone, with a no-peeking screen between turns.
  • NEW House rule at every new game: draw one or draw two (with the matching one- or two-canasta requirement to go out).
  • IMPROVED Rex and Dot joined Vera at the table. Rex immediately took a pile he shouldn't have.

• v0.1.0

  2026-08-26
  • NEW The club opens: classic two-hand Canasta against Vera — 108 cards, frozen piles, red threes, black threes, minimum melds, natural and mixed canastas, matches to 5,000.
  • NEW Your match saves itself. Close the tab mid-hand; your cards will wait.