Definitions for fan-tan

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IPA: /ˈfænˌtæn/

Fan-Tan is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in fan-tan (-aafnnt).

Definitions for fan-tan

noun

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.

Origin of fan-tan

First recorded in 1875-80, fan-tan is from the Chinese word fān tān literally, repeated divisions, or

Examples for fan-tan

The Malays at fan-tan by the gleam of the slush-light under the awning grew silent.

Games of fan-tan and pie-gow are constantly in operation; and the police either tolerate or are powerless to stop them.

fan-tan was in progress at one of the tables, the four players being apparently the only strictly sober people in the room.

There, from a small quadrangular gallery, he could look down on the “well” of the fan-tan lay out below.

There, from a small quadrangular gallery, he could look down on the "well" of the fan-tan lay out below.

It's all a game of bluff, as I told you years ago in that fan-tan shop in Shanghai.

I could not manage to make out exactly from the description what the game they play is like, but it was not fan-tan.

Here cards are generally used instead of dice to separate the players from their money, fan-tan being the favorite game.