How To Play Canasta: A Beginner’s Guide to Learning the Canasta Card Game, Rules, Scoring & Strategies

By Tim Ander

Master the Stylish and Refined Game of Canasta!
Inside How to Play Canasta, you’ll discover how to play this relatively new South American game. Invented in Montevideo, Uruguay, this game quickly spread to neighboring countries. The game’s inventors named it after canastillos, little baskets they used to sort out their cards. In the 1940s, Josephine Artayate de Veil introduced the game to Manhattan’s Regency Club – and the rest is history!
Canasta combines elements of Bridge and Rummy. This game is easy to learn, especially for players of these games. Players prefer Canasta because they can play individually and in pairs. This game uses two full decks of cards (including the jokers) and combines partnership play with point-scoring (jokers are worth the most points).
How to Play Canasta provides a thorough grounding in the rules and strategies of the game, including melds, red threes, and canastas. You’ll also find detailed descriptions of winning Canasta techniques:

• Maximizing Your Opening Meld
• Getting the Discard Pile
• Playing in Pairs
• Leveraging Dominant and Submissive Pairs
• Freezing Discard Piles
• “Going Out” at the End of a Hand
• and Tallying Points

You’ll also gain access to a wealth of tips and tricks:

• When NOT to meld
• Fast Melding does and don’ts
• When to force the game
• How to maximize your points with safe cards
• What to do with 7 wild cards
• Why to avoid early canastas
• When (and when not) to go out
• and even Why not to bluff in Canasta

You’ll even learn popular variants like Modern American Canasta and Two Players Canasta!
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• Language: Македонски
• Publisher: CRB Publishing
• Release date: Mar 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9788827502365

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Conclusion

Game Origin and History

Canasta is an old card game that originates from Montevideo, Uruguay and was created back in 1939. In the age without television or internet, playing cards were surely one of the favorite pastimes. At first, the game was popular only in Montevideo but soon it spread quickly to neighbor country Argentina and other Latin American Countries. Once it entered the USA it spread throughout the world.

Canasta’s creators were Segundo Santos, an attorney, and Alberto Seratto, an architect. Segundo was a member of the Jockey Club, a place where professional people were gathering to spend some time mingling and playing cards. He was so devoted to playing cards such as Bridge or Rummy in the Club, often staying there for more than six hours. Realizing that he was literally spending half of the day at work and the other half, at the club (which was affecting his work efficiency) he realized that he was more of a card player than an attorney. And it all started from there. Playing Bridge and Rummy (a lighter version of Bridge) inspired him to create a combination of both games. His playing partner, Alberto helped him create numerous variations of Bridge and Rummy. They spent almost one month playing the variations until they finalized the rules of what today we know as Canasta. After a month of playing, the two card partners invited two other friends to play with them. The friends were hooked and loved the new game.

At the beginning the game was nameless, and Segundo and Alberto were simply calling it The Game. As they were sitting in a restaurant, having a test play, Segundo noticed a little basket they had borrowed from the waiter to keep their cards stored. And he simply called it Canastillo which translated in Spanish means little basket. Later they got a suggestion to shorten the name to Canasta, which means basket. The name was easy to memorize and pronounce, and soon The Game got its current name.

Canasta was growing popular so fast (even before it