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Canasta Score SheetsEntry/Object ID
2022.2.85.117Description
The Bromfields were avid card and game players. One popular game of the post-war era was Canasta. As part of the rummy family, Canasta involves making groups of like cards while discarding cards into one pile and pulling new cards from another.
This box of Canasta tally sheets includes one with a woodcock and chicks on the cover and the other with two coots and chicks on the cover. Tally sheets allow players to track scores. In Canasta, players gain points from melds, a collection of cards the same rank. In Canasta, melds are formed and added to by both partners throughout play. Points are awarded depending on the rank of the cards and the number of cards in it. A hand ends when one player discards their final card. The game ends when one team reaches 5,000 points.
