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Origin | France |
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Type | gambling |
Skills required | counting |
Cards | 52 |
Deck | Anglo-American |
Play | clockwise |
Playing time | 10–15 minutes |
Random chance | medium |
Related games | |
Baccarat, Basset, Tempeln |
Faro (/ˈfɛəroʊ/FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling card game. It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed.
It is not a direct relative of poker, but Faro was often just as popular due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds[1] than most games of chance. The game of Faro is played with only one deck of cards and admits any number of players.
Popular in North America during the 1800s,[2] Faro was eventually overtaken by poker as the preferred card game of gamblers in the early 1900s.[3]
Variants include German Faro, Jewish Faro, and Ladies' Faro.
The earliest references to a card game named Pharaon (French for 'Pharaoh') are found in Southwestern France during the reign of Louis XIV. Basset was outlawed in 1691, and Pharaoh emerged several years later as a derivative of Basset, before it too was outlawed.[4]
Despite the French ban, Pharaoh and Basset continued to be widely played in England during the 18th century, where it was known as Pharo, an English alternate spelling of Pharaoh.[5] The game was easy to learn, quick, and when played honestly, the odds for a player were considered by some to be the best of all gambling games, as Gilly Williams records in a letter to George Selwyn in 1752.[6]
With its name shortened to Faro, it spread to the United States in the 19th century to become the most widespread and popularly favored gambling game. It was played in almost every gambling hall in the Old West from 1825 to 1915.[7] Faro could be played in over 150 places in Washington, D.C. alone during the Civil War.[8] An 1882 study considered faro to be the most popular form of gambling, surpassing all others forms combined in terms of money wagered each year.[4]
It was also widespread in the German states during the 19th century, where it was known as Pharao or Pharo. A simplified version played with 32 German-suited cards was known as Deutsches Pharao ('German Pharo') or Süßmilch. It is recorded in card game compendia from at least 1810 to 1975.
In the US, Faro was also called 'bucking the tiger' or 'twisting the tiger's tail', a reference to early card backs that featured a drawing of a Bengal tiger. By the mid 19th century, the tiger was so commonly associated with the game that gambling districts where faro was popular became known as 'tiger town', or in the case of smaller venues, 'tiger alley'.[9] Some gambling houses would simply hang a picture of a tiger in their windows to advertise that a game could be played there.
Faro's detractors regarded it as a dangerous scam that destroyed families and reduced men to poverty because of rampant rigging of the dealing box. Crooked faro equipment was so popular that many sporting-house companies began to supply gaffed dealing boxes specially designed so that the bankers could cheat their players. (See section of cheating by dealers below.) Cheating was so prevalent that editions of Hoyle’s Rules of Games began their faro section by warning readers that not a single honest faro bank could be found in the United States. Criminal prosecutions of faro were involved in the Supreme Court cases of United States v. Simms, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 252 (1803),[10] and Ex parte Milburn, 34 U.S. (9 Pet.) 704 (1835).[citation needed]
Although the game became scarce after World War II, it continued to be played at a few Las Vegas and Reno casinos through 1985.[11]
Historians have suggested that the name Pharaon comes from Louis XIV's royal gamblers, who chose the name from the motif that commonly adorned one of the French-made court cards.[5]
A game of faro was often called a 'faro bank'. It was played with an entire deck of playing cards. One person was designated the 'banker' and an indeterminate number of players, known as 'punters', could be admitted. Chips (called 'checks') were purchased by the punter from the banker (or house) from which the game originated. Bet values and limits were set by the house. Usual check values were 50 cents to $10 each.
The faro table was typically oval,[12] covered with green baize, and had a cutout for the banker. A board was placed on top of the table with one suit of cards (traditionally spades) pasted to it in numerical order, representing a standardized betting 'layout'. Each player laid his stake on one of the 13 cards on the layout. Players could place multiple bets and could bet on multiple cards simultaneously by placing their bet between cards or on specific card edges. A player could reverse the intent of his bet by placing a hexagonal (6-sided) token called a 'copper' on it. Some histories said a penny was sometimes used in place of a copper. This was known as 'coppering' the bet, and reversed the meaning of the win/loss piles for that particular bet. Players also had the choice of betting on the 'high card' bar located at the top of the layout.
Certain advantages were reserved to the banker: if he drew a doublet, that is, two equal cards, he won half of the stakes upon the card which equaled the doublet. In a fair game, this provided the only 'house edge'. If the banker drew the last card of the pack, he was exempt from doubling the stakes deposited on that card.[13] These and the advantage from the odds on the turn bet provided a slight financial advantage to the dealer or house. To give themselves more of an advantage, and to counter the losses from players cheating, the dealers would also often cheat as well.[4]
A device, called a 'casekeep' was employed to assist the players and prevent dealer cheating by counting cards. The casekeep resembled an abacus, with one spindle for each card denomination, with four counters on each spindle. As a card was played, either winning or losing, one of four counters would be moved to indicate that a card of that denomination had been played. This allowed players to plan their bets by keeping track of what cards remained available in the dealing box. The operator of the case keep is called the 'casekeeper', or colloquially in the American West, the 'coffin driver'.
In a fair game the house's edge was low, so bankers increasingly resorted to cheating the players to increase the profitability of the game for the house. This too was acknowledged by Hoyle editors when describing how faro banks were opened and operated: 'To justify the initial expenditure, a dealer must have some permanent advantage.'[4]
Dealers employed several methods of cheating:
Players would routinely cheat as well. Their techniques employed distraction and sleight-of-hand, and usually involved moving their stake to a winning card, or at the very least off the losing card, without being detected.[4] Their methods ranged from crude to creative, and worked best at a busy, fast-paced table:
Being caught cheating often resulted in a fight, or even gunfire.[4]
The well-known author of Regency romances, Georgette Heyer, wrote a novel titled 'Faro's Daughter'; it tells of a young lady forced to deal faro to support her family and her ensuing romance with one of the gaming hall patrons (written 1941).
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Another fun puzzle from Everyman, with most of the usual features we’ve come to expect.
The clues range from pretty straightforward to quite complex, which I think is what Everyman intends (to give beginners a way in, while still challenging more seasoned solvers). We have some homophones, a handful of anagrams (with only one debatable anagram indicator this time), and one unrecognisable word in a clue which I’m going to assume is a Guardian typo. Three linked entries this time rather than two: 1a, 25a and 4d, each of which is two words both starting with C. As usual the surfaces are occasionally a bit rough, but there are some good ones – I laughed at 20a and 23a. Thanks Everyman as always.
Definitions are underlined; BOLD UPPERCASE indicates letters used in the wordplay; square brackets [ ] indicate omitted letters.
ACROSS | ||
1 | CRUISE CONTROL | Stunt-performing actor given key for automotive device (6,7) |
CRUISE (actor Tom Cruise, who is known for doing his own stunts in action films) + CONTROL (key). | ||
8 | OBOE | Endlessly booed scordato member of orchestra (4) |
Anagram of BOOE[d] without its last letter (endlessly). Everyman is known for somewhat eccentric anagram indicators; scordato is a musical term describing a stringed instrument where one or more strings are tuned higher or lower than their normal pitches. Whether that corresponds to “anagram” is a matter of opinion. | ||
9 | DUE PROCESS | Course sped around with appropriate safeguards (3,7) |
Anagram (around) of COURSE SPED. Following due process = doing something properly according to the rules. | ||
10 | HANDEL | Composer‘s name called out (6) |
Homophone (called out) of HANDLE (a pseudonym or radio call-sign, or just slang for a name). | ||
11 | UNAFRAID | Intoxicated faun to make incursion, being fearless (8) |
Anagram (intoxicated) of FAUN, then RAID (incursion). | ||
12 | HANDIWORK | Doing borders of Hawaii, then either border of Woodstock (9) |
Two variations on an old trick: the borders (end letters) of Hawaii are H AND I, and either border of Woodstock is W OR K. Doing = handiwork = what someone has done. Psalm 118:23 – “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.” | ||
14 | AIRS | Eldest of children usually expressed pretentiousness (4) |
Homophone (expressed) of HEIRS (eldest of children usually; this confused me for a while until I remembered that “eldest” could be plural). As in “putting on airs” = being pretentious. | ||
15 | ICES | Big cheese regularly chills (4) |
Alternate letters (regularly) of [b]I[g] C[h]E[e]S[e]. Ice, as a verb = to cool something down using ice. | ||
16 | ADORINGLY | Kerfuffle before token of love offered on vacation lovingly, lovingly (9) |
ADO (kerfuffle = disruption) + RING (token of love offered) + L[ovingl]Y (on vacation = when emptied = middle letters removed). | ||
20 | TIA MARIA | Dry in the morning; before start of afternoon, Italian’s knocked back liqueur (3,5) |
AIR (as a verb = hang up clothes to dry) + AM (in the morning) + start of A[fternoon] + IT (Italian), all reversed (knocked back). The liqueur was a fairly easy guess from the letter counts, but the parsing took a while. | ||
21 | MOUTHY | Someone with a lisp’s shy, becoming talkative (6) |
Shy = MOUSY, which someone with a lisp may pronounce as MOUTHY. Slang for talkative, especially describing someone who isn’t afraid to say exactly what they think. | ||
23 | STRING VEST | Vet’s confused after duck escapes holding underwear (6,4) |
Anagram (confused) of VET’S, after ST[o]RING (holding) without the O (zero = duck in cricket scoring). | ||
24 | DIVA | Singer‘s keen on retiring (4) |
AVID (keen), reversed (on retiring). | ||
25 | CHEDDAR CHEESE | Cheered and chased off something from Somerset (7,6) |
Anagram (off) of CHEERED + CHASED. The classic UK cheese, originally from the village of Cheddar in Somerset, but now copied everywhere. | ||
DOWN | ||
1 | CABBALA | Primarily ‘correspondence’: arcane Biblical beliefs; Abrahamic literature absorbed? (7) |
Everyman’s usual “primarily” clue, using the initial letters of the clue words. Belief system based on mystical interpretation of Hebrew Biblical texts, with various spellings including Kabbalah. | ||
2 | U-BEND | Whereby unpleasant burden is exclusing reek, primarily? (1-4) |
Anagram (unpleasant) of BU[r]DEN, without the initial letter (primarily) of R[eek]. I assume “exclusing” is a misprint for “excluding”; the “s” form is used in words such as exclusion / exclusive, but not as a verb in its own right, as far as I can see. Extended definition: U-bend = a bend in a waste-water outlet pipe, which acts as a trap to block unpleasant-smelling sewer gases. | ||
3 | SOD’S LAW | So Dad’s starter comes on a salad? Something bad will inevitably occur (4,3) |
SO + starting letter of D[ad] + SLAW (salad of shredded cabbage or similar vegetables). Alternative name for Murphy’s Law = “anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. | ||
4 | CHEQUERED CAREER | Wildly cheered queer car that’s had good and bad times (9,6) |
Anagram (wildly) of CHEERED QUEER CAR. Chequered career (chequered past, chequered history, etc) = a mixture of success and failure. | ||
5 | NORWAY | Some forsaken or waylaid in the country (6) |
Hidden answer (some) in [forsake]N OR WAY[laid]. | ||
6 | RECURSION | Going back to find suspicious Puerto Ricans denied tap dancing (9) |
Anagram (suspicious) of [p]UER[t]O RIC[a]NS, with the letters TAP removed. I think “dancing” is just telling us that these three letters don’t appear together in order, but I’m not sure it’s strictly necessary, except to make sense of the surface. | ||
7 | LASSIES | Fool with slander, perhaps, about young women (7) |
ASS (fool), with LIES (slander perhaps) around (about) it. Lassie = Scottish word for a girl or young woman. | ||
13 | DREAMLIKE | ‘Milk a deer’? That’s freakish, surreal (9) |
Anagram (freakish) of MILK A DEER. | ||
15 | IDIOTIC | Unwise to assemble 3rd, 7th, 9th, 20th, 22nd, 27th & 28th pieces from Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (7) |
The 3rd, 7th, 9th . . . letters in the specified composer‘s full name. Rather an obvious trick, but Everyman does like to provide a few easy clues to get beginners started. | ||
17 | REMATCH | Mum’s overcome by strain when game’s played again (7) |
MA (mother = mum), contained in RETCH (strain, as a verb). | ||
18 | LE HAVRE | Corrupt chevalier’s heading off, abandoning one French city (2,5) |
Anagram (corrupt) of [c]HEVAL[i]ER, without the heading (first letter) and the I (one in Roman numerals). | ||
19 | FRIGID | Run into tree? Everyman would, becoming unresponsive (6) |
R (abbreviation for run in cricket scoring) inserted into FIG (a type of tree), then I’D (Everyman, the crossword setter, would). | ||
22 | UNDUE | Fun duet; ‘side splitting’? … a bit much (5) |
[f]UN DUE[t], splitting away the outer letters (side splitting). Undue (as in undue haste) = more than necessary. |
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