Canasta

Tom and Mary are playing Canasta.

Canasta is my favorite card game.

“Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.” “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”

Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules.[…]We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.

Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.

Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.