stuss

Stuss is a card game that is a variant of Faro. In Faro, players bet on cards drawn from a deck, with the house acting as the banker. The game is thought to be named after the pharaohs depicted on some early French playing cards.1

Stuss differs from Faro in how the cards are dealt. Instead of using a dealing box, the dealer holds the deck facedown in their hand. A key difference in Stuss is how "splits" are handled. A split occurs when two cards of the same rank are drawn in the same turn, meaning they both win and lose. In Faro, the house takes half of the bets on that rank during a split. In Stuss, however, the house takes all bets on that rank when a split occurs.1