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Rummy vs Canasta - What's the difference?

rummy | canasta |

As nouns the difference between rummy and canasta

is that rummy is a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong while canasta is a card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.

As an adjective rummy

is peculiar; odd.

rummy

English

Noun

(wikipedia rummy)
  • (uncountable) a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
  • (countable) a rum-drinking alcoholic.

    • See also

    * rummy nose * rummy-nose tetra

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated) peculiar; odd
    • a rummy thing
  • Resembling or tasting of rum.
    • a rummy flavour

    Quotations

    * 1920 , , p. 28 *: "You say rummy' things and you do ' rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive."

    Synonyms

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    canasta

    English

    (wikipedia canasta)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
  • * 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You'', '' , page 492,
    • “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.”
  • * 2004 , Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy'', Henry Bial (editor), ''The Performance Studies Reader , page 130,
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies , unnumbered page,
    • Modern American Canasta' is a younger cousin of the game of ' Canasta I explain here.
  • (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta .
  • * 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze'', '' , page 47,
    • 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 .