How many points are needed to win a canasta game?

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In the standard version of the card game canasta, the first partnership to reach a total of 5,000 points wins the game.1

While 5,000 points is the standard goal, variations of the game may have different requirements. For example, in the variant known as samba, the game is played to 10,000 points.1