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WHAT IS THE CARD GAME LIBERTY FAN-FAN?

This is the same game as Fan-Tan, except that it isn't necessary to begin a suit by playing the 7. Nobody can start a new suit until the previous suit has been finished. The player to the left of the dealer begins by playing any card of any suit. The next player must follow with the next higher card in the same suit or must put one counter in the middle of the table. The third player must continue with the next card in sequence or must put one counter in the middle of the table. This process continues, building up past the King with the Ace, deuce, and so on, until all 13 cards of the suit have been played. The one who plays the 13th card of the first suit may begin with any card in a new suit. Then the same process is continued with the second suit.

The player who first gets rid of all of his cards takes all the counters from the pool.

Skillful Play: Your chance of winning is best when you can determine which suit will be played last. If you have very few cards in this suit, you have an excellent chance to win all the counters since you will get rid of your few cards in that last suit while the other players still have cards of that suit left in their hands.

The time to choose the last suit does not take place after the third suit has been played since then there is no choice. The time for the choice occurs after the second suit has been played, since then two suits remain, and the player who chooses the third suit automatically fixes the other suit as the fourth suit to be played. If you happen to end the second suit, by good luck, you will then begin the play of the third suit. Naturally, you should play your longer suit as your third suit, saving your shorter suit for last.

If the two suits are almost equal in length, it is sometimes wiser to play the shorter suit third and save the other suit for the last. The time to do this is when you have two cards in sequence in the shorter suit. If you start with the higher of these two cards, you will naturally finish the suit with the lower. For example, suppose you have <spade> K-9-8-2. You notice that the 9-8 are in sequence. Following the principle just mentioned, you begin the suit with & 9. Other players follow with 10, J, and Q, allowing you to play the King. The Ace is played, you follow with <spade> 2, and others play on until your <spade> 8 completes the suit. Since you have completed the suit, it is up to you to start the next suit, and this is exactly what you foresaw. The player who ends the first suit should use the same principle of starting the second suit with the higher card of two cards in sequence. This will allow him to end the second suit and thus make his own choice for the third suit.

FIVE OR NINE

This is the same as Fan-Tan except that the first player may put down a 5 or a 9 (instead of a 7). The card chosen by the first player sets the pattern for the rest of that hand. If he puts down a 5, for example, the other three suits must likewise be begun by 5s; and if the first player begins by putting down a 9, the other three suits must be begun by a 9. Regardless of whether the play begins with a 5 or a 9, each suit builds up to a King as its top card and down to an Ace as its bottom card.

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