Canasta

Canasta is a matching card game in which the object

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is to create melds of cards of the same rank called canastas and

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then go out by playing or discarding all the cards in your hand.

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It is believed that Canasta was invented in Montevideo, Uruguay in

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Montevideo - Uruguay

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the early twentieth century. It then spread to the United States

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Twentieth century - United States

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and the rest of the world. There are variations of the game for two to

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six players, but the original version is played by four.

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