Editing Canasta (section)

==History==
The game of Canasta was devised by attorney Segundo Sánchez Santos and his Bridge partner, architect Alberto Serrato in [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]], in 1939,<ref name="American Heritage Dictionary">American Heritage Dictionary [https://books.google.com/books?id=VTYBbGybtNEC&dq=michael+scully+canasta&pg=PA51 ''Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come from Spanish''], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2007), {{ISBN|0618910549}}</ref> in an attempt to design a time-efficient game that was as engaging as Bridge.<ref>"History of Rummy" in {{cite book|last=Roya|first=Will|date=2021|title=Card Night: Classic Games, Classic Decks, and the History Behind Them|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers|page=93|isbn=978-0762473519}}</ref> They tried different formulas before inviting Arturo Gómez Hartley and Ricardo Sanguinetti to test their game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.jogatina.com/2012/08/historia-do-buraco.html|title = História do Buraco}}</ref>

After a positive reception of Canasta at their local bridge club, the Jockey Club, in the 1940s the game quickly spread north throughout [[South America]] in myriad variations to [[Chile]], [[Peru]], [[Brazil]] and [[Argentina]],<ref name="American Heritage Dictionary"/> where its rules were further refined.<ref>John Scarne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wGE7TVfEeIoC&dq=500+rum+game&pg=PA118 ''Scarne on Card Games''], p. 127, Dover Publications (2004), {{ISBN|0486436039}}</ref> It was introduced to the United States in 1949 by Josefina Artayeta de Viel (New York), where it was then referred to as the ''Argentine Rummy'' game by Ottilie H. Reilly in 1949 and Michael Scully of [[Coronet (magazine)|''Coronet'' magazine]] in 1953.<ref>John Griswold, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uariyzldrJwC&q=canasta&pg=PA228 ''Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations And Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories''], p. 228, AuthorHouse (2006), {{ISBN|1425931006}}</ref> In 1949/51 the New York ''Regency Club''<ref>[http://www.rwclubny.org/curriculum.html Website Regency Whist Club]</ref> wrote the Official Canasta Laws, which were published together with game experts from South America by the ''National Canasta Laws Commissions'' of the US and Argentina.<ref>''Official Canasta Laws, adopted by the Regency Club and the National Canasta Laws Commission as the official Canasta Laws.'' The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia. Toronto 1951 (third printing)</ref>

Canasta became rapidly popular in the United States in the 1950s<ref>Nikki Katz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qzYu6eaHX2MC&dq=argentine+rummy&pg=PA52 ''The Everything Card Games Book''], p. 52, Adams Media  (2004), {{ISBN|1593371306}}</ref> with many card sets, card trays and books being produced.<ref name="life">''Life'' Magazine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UkEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=canasta&pg=PA47 ''Life''], 19 December (1949)</ref> Interest in the game began to wane there during the 1960s, but the game still enjoys some popularity today, with Canasta leagues and clubs still existing in several parts of the United States.

The name canasta likely is named for the tray (basket) originally placed in the center of the table for the stack of undealt cards and discards. <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Canasta {{!}} Classic Card Game Rules & Strategy {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/canasta |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> Santos and Serrato never patented the game rules, and thus never received royalties from the later Canasta boom.

Canasta is <!--the only partnership member of the family of Rummy games to achieve the status of a classic; and it is -->"the most recent card game to have achieved worldwide status as a classic".{{sfn|Parlett|2008|p=517}}