stackyFACTSAlmost all modern rummy variants trace their lineage back to Conquian, a meld-making activity popular in nineteenth-century Mexico. So every time your grandmother aggressively plays a sequence of hearts to empty her hand, she is honoring centuries of Latin American tradition.
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