Faro
A free game from Ancient.Games · play chips only
Faro
The banking game that ran every saloon west of the Mississippi.
One deck, twenty-five turns, and a dealer who never blinks.
Deck's boxed and the soda's burned. Put your money where you like it.
Case Keeper
52 in the boxTap a card on the layout to back it. Copper a bet to back it to lose instead.
This layout is cut from hardwood.
Every board at Ancient Games is engraved and finished by hand, one at a time. The faro layout is in the shop queue — meanwhile, the rest of the collection is ready to ship.
How faro works
The dealer burns the top card — the soda — then pulls two cards per turn. The first is the bank's card: bets on that rank lose. The second is yours: bets on that rank pay even money.
Back a rank by tapping it. Back it to lose instead by coppering it, which is what the copper token was for at a real table. Bets stay on the layout until their rank turns up, so you can build a stack across several turns.
If both cards come up the same rank it's a split, and the bank takes half of everything on that rank. That split was the house's entire edge.
The case keeper tracks what's already out. Bright beads are still in the box. On the last turn three cards remain and you can call the turn — name their exact order and the bank pays four to one.
This is a historical simulation. The chips are imaginary and nothing here can be bought, sold, or cashed.
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