---
title: "Start Canasta Game"
method: POST
path: "/chatrooms/{room_name}/canasta/start"
tags: ["canasta"]
---

# Start Canasta Game

`POST /chatrooms/{room_name}/canasta/start`

Any participant starts a Canasta game in the chatroom.

Idempotent: if an active game already exists, return it as-is. This
prevents race conditions where concurrent /start clicks would each
end the previous game and create a new one, effectively killing
whoever clicked first.

## Path parameters

- `room_name` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

---

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