canasta

How To Use canasta In A Sentence

• Only in the meld scoring forms of rummy including 500 Rum, canasta and their relatives is the main aim of the game to form combinations that score points.
• If all the cards in it are natural, it is a pure canasta, indicated by stacking the cards together with a red card on top.
• If it contains one or more wild cards, it is a mixed canasta, indicated by stacking the cards with a black card on top.
• He also reads music, plays canasta, and can operate a manual transmission car if the seat is pulled up all the way.
• Red and black threes have special properties as in regular canasta.
• You must have at least one example of each type - natural, mixed, wild, sequence and sevens - completed with 7 cards in each, and you may also have additional canastas or smaller melds of any types.
• This game, formerly known as Canasta Five, is a variation of canasta played with three 52 card packs plus jokers, which has achieved great success in Australia and New Zealand.
• Bonuses for red threes, canastas and so on cannot be counted towards meeting the minimum.
• If you do not have the necessary sambas or canastas to end the game, for every melded red three you receive 100 penalty points.
• My grandmother spent her hours playing dominoes and canasta and gossiping.