Canasta Scoring API
Canasta card-game scoring as an API, computed locally and deterministically and exactly — the point counting that makes Canasta famously fiddly, done for you. The card-value endpoint totals the point value of a hand or meld: a joker is 50, aces and twos 20, eights through kings 10, fours through sevens and black threes 5, and a red three a 100-point bonus card — so a joker, an ace, a king, a seven and a red three come to 185. The bonus endpoint adds the round bonuses: a natural (pure) canasta is 500, a mixed canasta 300, each red three 100 (all four double to 800), going out 100, and going out concealed a further 100 — two naturals, a mixed, three red threes and going out is 1,700. The hand-score endpoint nets it out: the card points you melded, plus the bonuses, minus the card points left stranded in your hand when the round ends. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and exact. Ideal for Canasta apps, online card-room scorekeepers, club and family game-night tools, and learning aids. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Exact integer maths. Live, nothing stored. 3 compute endpoints. Classic Canasta values; rule variants differ.
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