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fan-tan

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1. Also, fan tan. Also called parliament, sevens. Cards. a game in which the players play their sevens and other cards forming sequences in the same suits as their sevens, the winner being the player who first runs out of cards.
2. a Chinese gambling game in which a pile of coins, counters, or objects is placed under a bowl and bets are made on what the remainder will be after they have been counted off in fours.
Origin:
1875–80; < Chin fān tān lit., repeated divisions, or < cognate dial. forms
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fan-tan   (fān'tān')   
n.  

  1. A Chinese betting game in which the players lay wagers on the number of counters that will remain when a hidden pile of them has been divided by four.

  2. A card game in which sevens and their equivalent are played in sequence and the first player out of cards is the winner.


[Chinese fān tān : fān, turn, chance + tān, to spread out.]
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fan-tan

bank gambling game of Chinese origin, dating back at least 2,000 years and introduced in the western United States in the second half of the 19th century by Chinese immigrant workers

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