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Greetings, all. I'm David, and I've forgotten just how old I was when I learned how to play. Apparently canasta is sort of a tradition in my family, at least on my dad's side--I've been told they used to have big games about once every week or two, before I was born. My grandma used to love to play, and I guess it rubbed off on my dad, who got me addicted, in addition to my brother and sister. Generally, we play canasta when we go visit our small cabin in the mountains--we have a little wooden table there that's basically just used for card games. I'm always ready for another game, even when it seems like nobody else is!
One thing I like about canasta is how progressive it is--how you can start with absolutely nothing and then build up an unstoppable flood of cards... plus there's just something indescribable about seeing the player to your right slowly discard a deuce with that regretful look in their eye. When we played, you always knew when players were getting frustrated because they would accuse you of wandering eyes, winking at your partner, twitching, etc. Yet it's also fun when you're on another side of the table. Not many card games I've played can so well combine feelings of suspense, satisfaction, at times a sort of apathetic frustration and possibly even oneness as well as canasta can. I'm much more familiar with classic canasta, as I guess it's called, than the other rules sets. But it's always fun to play with someone else and see how the rules they learned to play by differ. Although as for the wildcard melding, I've never had the infamous wildcard hand in the first place, so that's kind of hard to say. A canasta community--awesome idea! I can't wait to see how it plays out, no pun intended of course ;) !
One thing I like about canasta is how progressive it is--how you can start with absolutely nothing and then build up an unstoppable flood of cards... plus there's just something indescribable about seeing the player to your right slowly discard a deuce with that regretful look in their eye. When we played, you always knew when players were getting frustrated because they would accuse you of wandering eyes, winking at your partner, twitching, etc. Yet it's also fun when you're on another side of the table. Not many card games I've played can so well combine feelings of suspense, satisfaction, at times a sort of apathetic frustration and possibly even oneness as well as canasta can. I'm much more familiar with classic canasta, as I guess it's called, than the other rules sets. But it's always fun to play with someone else and see how the rules they learned to play by differ. Although as for the wildcard melding, I've never had the infamous wildcard hand in the first place, so that's kind of hard to say. A canasta community--awesome idea! I can't wait to see how it plays out, no pun intended of course ;) !