番faan1攤taan1

English

1. 'fan-tan' (a gambling game)
2. Fan-tan - a form of gambling previously popular in southern China. Literally: repeated division. A cross is drawn in the center of an ordinary table, marked 1, 2, 3 and 4, for placing the bet. The banker on another side places a bamboo mat and puts on a double handful of small buttons, beads, coins, or dried beans, which he covers part of the buttons with a small bowl. When all bets are placed, the bowl is removed and the croupier uses a small bamboo stick to remove the buttons from the heap, four at a time as a "pack", this action is called "dividing" or "packing", until the final batch is reached, the game result is the number of leftover in the last batch.unreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 以前流行兩廣一帶嘅賭博方法。喺張枱上畫個十字，分成一至四門俾賭客落注。另一邊用竹蓆墊住幾十個相同大小嘅攤子（可以用銅錢、衣鈕、蠶豆、圍棋棋子等），賭局開始，莊家用一個小碗做「攤盅」隨機蓋著部分銅錢。賭客下注後，莊家打開小碗進行點算，稱為「攤」或「行皮」-- 以籐條或竹籤扒開攤子，以四粒一組為一「皮」，最後餘數即為賭局結果。unreviewed?

Examples

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  依家己經好少見人賭番攤。

  Nowadays hardly see people playing Fan-tan.