50 Years of CANASTA; CANASTA Caliente 50th Anniversary Edition Marks Half Century of Card Playing Fun.News, Travel & Lifestyle Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2000 Eighty members of the Kings Point Canasta canasta: see rummy. canasta Form of rummy, using two full decks, in which players or partnerships try to meld groups of three or more cards of the same rank and score bonuses for seven-card melds. Club, South Florida's largest Canasta club, played an invitational competition this week in Miami Beach Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. . CANASTA Caliente was the star attraction star attraction n → atracción f principal star attraction n → grande attraction star attraction star n → during the splashy splash·y adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est 1. Making or likely to make splashes. 2. Covered with splashes of color. 3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy. launch of the 50th anniversary edition of the game at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort. The winning partnership included Harriet Rosenberg and Anne Meyer, both of Tamarac, Fla., tallied 5,155. Winning Moves president, Philip Orbanes Philip E. Orbanes is an author, a founding partner and currently president of Winning Moves Games in Danvers, Massachusetts. Orbanes is a graduate of the Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University). , announced details of the new National Canasta Tournament program that the company will organize and support throughout the country. The national championship will be held biannually bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an . The game and tournament program are supported at a new online site at canastagame.com with information about the game, the rules, where to buy it, how to find local Canasta clubs, how to enter the tournaments, game-play tips, special offers, discounts, Canasta gift items and more. CANASTA Caliente is bilingual (English/Spanish) and comes with 112 custom-designed cards with colorful graphics. The object of the game is to score 5000 points by laying down sets of cards and adding to them. Claiming and freezing the prize pile are important strategies. Forming a Canasta (one or more cards of the same suit) is necessary to go out. The two Caliente (hot) cards introduce new variations of play enabling players with depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d hands to rebuild to exactly 11 cards. The game takes only ten minutes to learn and is played with two to six players. CANASTA Caliente was inspired by Philip Orbanes of Winning Moves. Mr. Orbanes, known as the Game Guru, has a long career in the toy and game industry. As a college student he marketed his first games. He went on to the head the product development department for Parker Brothers where he became the world's foremost authority on MONOPOLY. He is the author of the MONOPOLY Companion. Mr. Orbanes is an avid game collector and has an extensive knowledge of the history of all popular games. Canasta burst onto the American scene in 1950 and became an immediate hit paralleling the popularity of MONOPOLY and MAH JONGG. Within a four-year period, millions of Canasta rules books were sold. The new CANASTA Caliente is sold in specialty retail outlets, toy chains and on E-Commerce sites for a suggested retail price of $10.95. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.032300/bb8 |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion