What counts, in order

At the end of the hand you add four families of points, always in the same order, for each pair: going-out bonus, canasta values, combinations on the table, minus cards left in hand. If you change the order every time, a minus or a bonus is easy to miss. A fixed order matters more than a calculator.

  • Going out: the pair that goes out takes the bonus in the rules you chose at the start of the night.
  • Clean and dirty canastas: different values; do not lump them into one “pile of sevens”.
  • Visible combinations: add them card by card or combination by combination, but only once.
  • Cards in hand: they are subtracted. If you go out with burraco, check the table rule on the pile.

Clean or dirty is not a detail

A clean canasta (no wilds, according to the rules you adopted) is worth more than a dirty one. At a home table the argument often starts later, when the sheet is already full of corrections. Mark C or D when the canasta is melded, not at the end of the hand. Burraco Table keeps a live total for that reason: the number changes when you meld, not when someone remembers it aloud.

One total, one table

If three people keep three sheets, you are playing three matches. One scorekeeper — paper or screen — and everyone looks at that. After each hand, read the running total out loud. If someone disagrees, recount that hand at once, not three hands later. Set the winning score at the start (often 2005 or 3005, depending on the variant) and do not change it halfway.

Burraco Table, in the Daragon14 catalogue, is a live scorekeeper for real tables: it does not play the cards for you. It opens in the browser, syncs the total between the phones around the table and removes scrap paper. For four people, one phone is enough; if you rotate tables, open a new table and do not reuse the previous match scores.

Typical mistakes

Forgetting cards in the hand of the pair that did not go out. Counting the same combination twice because it was “rebuilt” in conversation. Giving a burraco bonus to a pair that did not meet the conditions. Valuing wilds one way and then recounting them another way. The fix is always the same: rules said first, one total, one check per hand.