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Card games in Uruguay

Two games played with the 40-card Spanish suited pack:

Uruguay is famous in card game history as the country of origin of Canasta, which is said to have been invented in Montevideo in 1939 and became a worldwide craze in the 1950's.

The book El Juego es Cosa Seria by Juan Capagorry (Montevideo, 1979) describes a number of Uruguayan card games and variants, including:

The World Casino Directory includes a listing of Casinos in Uruguay.

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