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Fan-tan   Listen
noun
Fan-tan  n.  
1.
A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
2.
A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner.





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"Fan-tan" Quotes from Famous Books



... raids on Chinatown for gambling," said an educated Chinaman in Vancouver to me, "is that the city police have no secret service among the Chinese, and they never raid the resorts that need most to be cleaned out. They raid some little joint where the Chinese boys are playing fan-tan for ten cents, when they do not raid up-town gambling hells where white men play for hundreds of dollars. If the police employed Chinese secret service, they could clean out every vice resort in a week. Except in the segregated district, which is white, there would not be any vice. ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut


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