fantan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fantan	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fantan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fantan n 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) Synonym(s): fantan, fan tan 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 Synonym(s): fantan, sevens, parliament
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fan-tan \Fan"-tan`\, n. [Chinese (of Canton) in an-tan-kun gambling house.] 1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cap, 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.