Canasta
Sign in to saveCanasta (; Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 rum. 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 hands.
Key facts
- CardGame.title
- Canasta
- CardGame.image_link
- Canasta.jpg
- CardGame.type
- Matching
- CardGame.players
- 2–4
- CardGame.ages
- 11 and up
- CardGame.num_cards
- 108 cards
- CardGame.deck
- French
- CardGame.play
- Clockwise
- CardGame.card_rank
- Red-3 Joker 2 A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Black-3
- CardGame.origin
- Uruguay
- CardGame.related
- BuracoBiriba
- CardGame.playing_time
- 60 minutes (1 hour)
- CardGame.random_chance
- Medium
- CardGame.skills
- Tactics and strategy
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- Canasta example layout.jpg
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30 sectionsContents
- History
- Rules for classic Canasta
- Cards and deal
- Play
- Melds and canastas
- Initial melds
- Picking up the discard pile
- Going out and ending a hand
- Scoring
- Penalties
- Variations
- Canasta for two or three players
- Modern American Canasta
- Samba
- Bolivian Canasta
- Brazilian Canasta
- British Canasta
- Chilean Canasta
- Cuban Canasta
- Italian Canasta
- Uruguayan Canasta
- Boat Canasta
- Hand and Foot Canasta
- Initial melds
- The scoring
- Miscellaneous variations for Classic Canasta and other types
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Canasta (; Spanish for "basket") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 rum. 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 hands.
==History== The game of Canasta was devised by attorney Segundo Sánchez Santos and his Bridge partner, architect Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939, in an attempt to design a time-efficient game that was as engaging as Bridge. They tried different formulas before inviting Arturo Gómez Hartley and Ricardo Sanguinetti to test their game.