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The Games Journal | A Magazine About Boardgames Editor's Note: Winning Moves published Canasta Caliente late last year to commemorate the 50 anniversary of the Canasta craze in the United States. The author of this article, Philip E. Orbanes, is the president of Winning Moves, Inc. He was formerly Senior Vice-President of Research and Development at Parker Brothers and is the author of "The Monopoly Companion." Canasta, he points outs, is "one of those rare standard games that begs for its own custom deck of cards because each card has a scoring value (not necessarily its numerical value), some cards have very special play characteristics, and suits are irrelevant." Canasta Caliente features the authentic original game play. "The only addition we made," says Orbanes, "is two optional Caliente (hot) cards to correct a minor flaw in the original game: a reduced hand is sometimes a problem that can
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