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Fantan

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Noun

1. fan tan, fantan

a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)

2. fantan, parliament, sevens

a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Fantan

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noun
1. 
a Chinese gambling game in which a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and wagers laid on how many will remain after they have been divided by four
2. 
a card game played in sequence, the winner being the first to use up all his or her cards

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Fantan

see synonyms of fantan
noun
1. 
a Chinese gambling game in which the players bet on the number of beans, etc. that will be left from a pile after it has been counted off in fours
2. 
a card game in which the players seek to discard all their cards in proper sequence

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.