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Canasta is a matching card game in which the object is to create melds of cards of the same rank and then go out by playing or
discarding all the cards in your hand.
The
distinctive feature of Canasta, as opposed to other Rummy games, is that
making a seven-card meld, called a canasta, gives the player a huge bonus, and the number of canastas made
usually decides the game.
Another distinctive feature is that in Canasta, when a player picks up cards from the discard pile, the player
picks up the entire pile, as opposed to only the top card in most other Rummy games.
These differences in rules
produce differences in play. Whereas in ordinary Rummy, the goal is to go out fast, and having cards
in your hand is generally bad, the goal in Canasta is to build canastas, which requires many cards, and thus picking up the
pile is usually advantageous to the player.
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