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« on: November 06, 2013, 03:53:23 PM »
How did the game of Faro get it's name? NO CHEATIN!!! >:( ;D
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 06:18:25 PM »
Faro - a card game similar to poker. Derived from the French game "Pharaoh", Anglicized to "Pharo" and later Americanized to "Faro".

I don't even play cards and I knew that from crossword puzzles.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 07:09:48 PM »
Close and could be another reason.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2013, 09:51:32 PM »
I wait with bait on my breath ..... do enllghten us .....
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2013, 11:44:21 PM »
The cards they used to play with had Egyption Pharough faces on them,not the Kings Queens and Jacks we know of today :)
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2013, 10:36:26 AM »
Well, no kidding .... D'ya think that that might have had something to do with the French and the Brits calling the game "Pharaoh" and "Pharo"?

Note the spelling - Pharaoh, noun, generic term for ancient Egyptian kings.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2013, 10:38:23 AM »
Or facimile thereof :D ;D
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