Statistics Saturday: Some Popular 19th Century Gambling Games, So Far As You Know

• Faro
• Brag-and-Stick
• Twenty-card Poker
• Chuck-a-Luck
• Cudgels
• Phreno
• Tiger and Mugwump
• Policy
• Lick-the-Walloon
• Two-Card Monte (the third card took a blue ribbon, pastimes and recreations, when introduced at the Lewis and Clark Exhibition of 1905)
• Lexo
• Thimble-Rig

Reference: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life Of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T J Stiles.