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Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy. A double-deck card game called Canasta had spread over the hemisphere. In Buenos Aires, citadel of the game, Canasta had progressed from a diversion to a rage...
Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
This newest fad is a riproaring, high-scoring game of the rummy family. It combines the melding features of pinochle, the building principle of gin and some of the partnership elements of bridge. What a Canasta player needs most is endurance...
...with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy the object is to match...