Meaning of fan-tan | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   uncountable
2. A card game in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, and the winner is the first player to have no cards left.
   uncountable

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Examples

“He came in an said Pack, we were booked for Macau. When we got there, I played fantan in the Lisboa and he crossed over into Zhongshan.”

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