fan-tan

fan-tan
/fan"tan'/, n.
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.
[1875-80; < Chin fan tan lit., repeated divisions, or < cognate dial. forms]

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also called  Sevens, or Play And Pay,  

      card game that may be played by any number of players up to eight. The full pack of 52 cards is dealt out, one card at a time. Thus, some hands may contain one more card than others. All players ante to a pool; in some games, those players who are dealt fewer cards than others are required to ante an extra counter.

      Only one card is played at a turn. Beginning with the player to the left of the dealer, each player in turn must play a card if able; players who cannot play must pay one counter to the pool.

      The first card played must be a 7. The next player may add a card next in rank and of the same suit—i.e., the 8 or the 6—or may play another 7. Thereafter, each must play a card of the same suit and in unbroken sequence with one already on the table or may play a 7. Sequences build up to the king and down to the ace. The first player to play all his cards wins the pool, to which each of the others must add one counter for each of his unplayed cards. The card game Fan-Tan should not be confused with the ancient Chinese bank game of the same name.

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