Learn About the Fan Tan Option in Barbu

Video Transcript

"Fan Tan, Dominoes, if you will, the Barbu players sometimes call it Dominoes. Fan Tan is a classic card game in its own right. You can find information about Fan Tan on many of the search engine sites. It's an old fashioned game from the 1800's. It's a game where you have to, almost like solitaire, but you don't have to change the suite, where you have to start, any card starts, if you play the Jack or clubs and you're the opening person, the only plays that are available to the opponents are the ten of clubs or the queen of clubs or another Jack. Otherwise, they're forced to pass. This is a race. This is a game where you're trying to get rid of your hand as quickly as possible. You call Fan Tan when you have a lot of middle cards, not necessarily clustered together, but a suit like Jack, ten, nine, seven, and if you had suits similar to that with the top, say, as Jacks or Queens and the bottom, say, as sevens or eights. You do not call Fan Tan when you have a lot of Aces and deuces because you're going to get trapped at the end of a hand. So, Fan Tan, and we'll have an illustrated example of Fan Tan, this is a hand that you call, it's a race to try to get rid of your cards, similar to solitaire, as quickly as possible and you're racing against your opponents. And there's a fat reward of forty points for being the first one to go out. It's a good game."