Biribi
Biribi or Cavagnole is a Belle similar, historical, french gambling, which was banned in 1837.
Players will place their bets on a tableau with the numbers 1 to 70, the banker draws from a bag a number card and calls the winning number from.
If a player has placed on the number drawn, so he gets the 64 times his bet as profit, the remaining inserts forfeited in favor of the banker.
The house edge is 5/70 or about 7.14%.
The phrase " send someone to Biribi " meant in the French army that someone was transferred to a penal battalion to Algeria.
Source
Description of Biribi in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911
- Gambling
- Historical game