conquian

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The Word of the Day for July 25 is: 

conquian   \KONG-kee-un\   noun
     : a card game for two played with 40 cards from which all games of rummy 
developed

Example sentence:
     The friends whiled away a long summer day with endless games of conquian.

Did you know?
     "Conquian" is an old card game, played more frequently in the past than it 
is now. It is based upon the "draw and discard" principle that forms the basis 
for all modern games of rummy and is played with 40 cards, setting aside 
certain cards of a 52-card deck. (The most common variations involve the 
removal of either all face cards, or the tens, nines, and eights.) The goal of 
the game is to form three or four of a kind, or sequences. "Conquian" comes to 
us from Mexican Spanish, but the word is ultimately derived from the Spanish 
"con quien?" meaning "with whom?"





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