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Canasta 3

This group started in Feb 2019

Venue

Plough & Barleycorn
(see map)

Meeting Time

Second & Fourth Thursdays
2pm - 4pm

Group Co-ordinator

James Brinkworth

Contact Via Email:

groups@waterloovilleu3a.org.uk
or use our contacts page


Canasta is a card game of the rummy family of games. 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. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. It is the only partnership member of the family of Rummy games to achieve the status of a classic.

The game of Canasta was devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, along with Dicy Louise Evans of Bonnyman, Kentucky, in 1939. 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. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of Coronet magazine in 1953. 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.

We're an informal group that meet on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month for a friendly game of Canasta. We have a mix of abilities and experience, and complete newcomers are most welcome. We generally play in partnerships of 2 on a table of 4. But the 2 and 3 player versions are also used as numbers dictate. Everyone gets to play no matter how many are there!

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