How To Use Canasta In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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If it contains one or more wild cards, it is a mixed canasta, indicated by stacking the cards with a black card on top.
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He also reads music, plays canasta, and can operate a manual transmission car if the seat is pulled up all the way.
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Red and black threes have special properties as in regular canasta.
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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.
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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.
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Bonuses for red threes, canastas and so on cannot be counted towards meeting the minimum.
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If you do not have the necessary sambas or canastas to end the game, for every melded red three you receive 100 penalty points.
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My grandmother spent her hours playing dominoes and canasta and gossiping.
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His mother, along with his sister, is the nightly host of games of kalooki, a rummy variant not unlike Brooklyn-style canasta.
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Bonuses for red threes, canastas and so on cannot be counted towards meeting the minimum.
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It is possible to pick up the discard pile if it is not frozen and you have a meld or canasta in the same rank as the top card of the pile.
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Many women their age are playing canasta or bingo.
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At the time, we grandkids thought this was some kind of peculiar old-person habit, like playing canasta and reading Reader's Digest.
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Canasta is normally played with two standard 52 card packs plus four jokers (two from each pack), making 108 cards in all.
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The novelty in this game, compared to Canasta, is the fact that you can build sequences.
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We used to do that - having games of backgammon or canasta on the veneered wooden cabinet after dinner.
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No wonder the other players feel queasy as they sit in the background pretending to play canasta and desperately hoping the ambassador will send in some chocolate before JT begins fluttering his eyelashes and giggling coquettishly about his ice cubes melting.
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She played canasta obsessively and seemed to have endless folding tables.
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Bonuses for red threes, canastas and so on cannot be counted towards meeting the minimum.
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At the end, if you have completed your canasta of sevens, each red three you have laid out counts for 100 points bonus.
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It beats playing canasta, and you never know what you will see.
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A closed red or black canasta is indicated by squaring up the cards with a red or black natural card on top.
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If it includes one or more wild cards, it is called a mixed or black canasta; it is squared up with a natural black card on top.
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A meld can be started with three or more cards and built up to a canasta by adding cards on later turns.
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Once ensconced as a fully-fledged academic, he narrowed his field of hobbies to include amateur beatification and canasta.
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Bonuses for red threes and canastas do not count towards this minimum - it must be achieved by means of the value of the cards in the meld.
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You cannot go out until your team has completed two red canastas and one canasta of wild cards.
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Learned it from canasta and later from gin rummy — usage there is combining similar cards into a set.
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I did not hang around with gangs, did not do drugs and for the previous twelve months I shared a small flat with my grandmum and played countless games of canasta.
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Note that in this version of Canasta, melds consisting entirely of wild cards are not allowed.
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The trip meant enjoying a fine meal in the dining car, or perhaps a game of canasta (for the gentlemen in their suits) in the club car.
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For instance, if I form a canasta of sevens, any further sevens that are discarded by any player prevent the next player from taking the discard pile in the same way that black threes and wild cards do.
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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.
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What is wrong introducing card games such as bridge or canastas into club cultures rather than addictive armless bandits?
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I can't tell you more about this fragile play, except that Vada and her coevals Enid and Marybell like to play canasta and gossip in a tree house.
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However, you are only allowed to go out if your team has melded two sambas, or two canastas (pure or mixed ones), or one samba and one canasta.
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You do not count a canasta bonus for a meld of black threes, however.
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It is possible to pick up the discard pile if it is not frozen and you have a meld or canasta in the same rank as the top card of the pile.
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In samba wild cards are not so important as in canasta.
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If after completing your canasta of sevens you draw another one you must hold onto it, and it will prevent you from going out, even if you have met all the other requirements.
