![]() ![]() ![]() Canasta uses two complete decks of 52 playing cards (French Deck) plus the four Jokers. If partners are chosen they must sit opposite each other. Variations exist for two and three player games wherein each plays alone, and also for a six player game in two partnerships of three. The classic game is for four players in two partnerships. Rules for original Canasta Cards and deal The game quickly became a card-craze boom in the 1950s providing a sales avalanche of card sets, card trays and books about the subject. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of Coronet magazine in 1953. In the 1940s the game quickly spread in myriad variations to Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, where its rules were further refined before being introduced to the United States in 1948, where it was then referred to as the Argentine Rummy game by Ottilie H. The game of Canasta was devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939. It is the only partnership member of the family of Rummy games to achieve the status of a classic. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. Although many variations exist for two, three, five or six players, it is most commonly played by four in two partnerships with two standard decks of cards. Red-3 Joker 2 A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Black-3Ĭanasta ( Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum.
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