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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1950
Page
8
Women in private homes discuss the toughest chores as they juggle work and housekeeping. Lip service to habit schedules contrasts with dust storms and dish piles. A card game analogy highlights decision making under pressure.
E W of New York City asks whether to meld from a frozen pack. He cites a hand with Joker King King and Queen Queen Queen six five four five four to reach a 90 point initial meld and notes his partner was the dealer.
The author discusses how to pressure an opponent by withholding melds and observing safe discards. If you meld, the right player can safely discard high cards and you cannot pick them up. Without melds, the right player lacks safe choices, risking taking the pack. The tactic involves delaying melds until the right player has discarded several times, then acting.
The partner can discard to merge only if the initial meld is complete. If a joker has been laid in a legal meld, you may not move four sixes or relocate the joker to another meld. In the described scenario, you cannot add three sixes to your partner’s four sixes to create a canasta with the joker kept for another meld.
The advice column states readers can add sixes to the canasta while jokers stay fixed. It notes Mr. Jacoby cannot answer individual questions but will publish the most frequently asked questions in his next installment.
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