Samba & Bolivia

What you get

• Samba scorecard Seven hands, one row per partnership, with columns for sambas, bolivias and both kinds of canasta.
• Table quick reference Setup, what scores, common house rules and the opening meld ladder.
• Five colors Jade, navy, burgundy, slate and blush, all in the one download.
• Your group's name Optional, printed in the header and footer of every sheet.
• Large print option Bigger type on the sheets you write on, for easier reading at the table. Same price.

2 sheets · US Letter landscape, 11 × 8.5 in · vector PDF, sharp at any size · prints in color or grayscale

What samba adds to canasta

A samba is seven cards in sequence in one suit, such as the four through the ten of hearts. It is worth 1,500, and wild cards are never used in one.

A bolivia is a canasta made of seven wild cards, worth 2,500.

Ordinary canastas still count as they do in canasta: 500 natural, 300 mixed.

Red threes are 100 each and 1,000 for all six. Black threes count minus 100 each if you are caught holding them.

Going out

Going out adds 100, and many groups require a samba plus at least one other canasta before you may do it at all.

The game is usually played to 10,000, which is why it runs longer than canasta and why a running total column matters.

The opening meld still climbs

As in canasta, your first meld each hand has to reach a minimum that rises with your score, running from 15 up to 150.

The full ladder is printed on the reference sheet.

Large print

Check the large print box when you customize and the scoring grid comes out with noticeably bigger type and taller rows, which most people find easier to read across a table.

The grid is what grows. Reference panels and the fine print stay at their normal size, so nothing gets squeezed off the page, and the sheet still holds a sensible number of rounds.