Canasta: Refresher Bootcamp
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- Monday: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
- 5/19/2025
- Sessions: 1
- Location: Comstock Community Center - Room TBD
- Instructor: Sherri Raifaisen
- Fees: $60
- $10 Resident Discount
- Monday: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Description
Learned Canasta, but haven't played in a while? If you need a refresher prior to playing in a group, this short 1 session class will get you back on track and ready. This review class is an accelerated course and assumes you know the rules and familiar with strategies of the game.
Learn everything there is to know about Canasta, the popular card game from the rummy family. This class will review the techniques such as:
- The Game, deal and play
- Point Value of Cards
- Card Arrangements
- Talons
- Melding: Initial and Subsequent
- Rule of Five
- Aces and 7’s
- Basic strategies of discarding
- Basic strategies of signaling
- Going out
- Wild cards
- Picking the pack
- Scoring
- Penalties
- Introduction to special hands
- Strategy
- Table Rules
Fees
- Class Fee $60