Canasta Playing Cards A Basket of Fun! RSS About Canasta Accessories Canasta Decks of Cards As many of you already know you can play most forms of canasta by just grabbing a couple of decks of normal playing cards. That is one of the many parts that makes canasta so much fun. Probably the biggest difficulty is for beginners to be able to keep track of points or remember the […]
Part of the Rummy family of card games, Canasta was invented by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1939. Even though it is a more complex Rummy variant, the game quickly became a sensation, spreading in popularity like a wildfire in other South American countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, with […]
Canasta is a card game that can be played with 2 to 6 players, but the ideal number of players is typically 4 as a team game. The rules of Canasta are as follows. Two decks of 54 cards (108 cards total), including the 4 jokers, are used to play Canasta. All cards are shuffled […]