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BIRIBI, or CAVAGNOLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 981 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIRIBI, or CAVAGNOLE  , a
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French
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game of
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chance, prohibited by
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law since 1837 . It is played on a
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board on which the
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numbers 1 to 70 are marked . The players put their stakes on the numbers they wish to back . The banker is provided with a bag from which he draws a
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case containing a
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ticket, the tickets corresP9nding with the numbers on the board . The banker calls out the number, and the player who has backed it receives sixty-four times his stake; the other stakes go to the banker . In the French
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army " to be sent to
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Biribi " is a cant
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term for being sent to the disciplinary
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battalion in
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Algeria .

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