FANTAN

fantan, sevens, parliament

(noun) 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

fantan, fan tan

(noun) 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)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition