Biribi

Biribi, biribissi (in Italian), or cavagnole (in French), is an Italian game of chance similar to roulette, played for low stakes.

The players put their stakes on the numbers they wish to back.

The banker calls out the number, and any players who backed it receive sixty-four times their stake; all other stakes go to the banker.

[2] Casanova played it in Genoa (illegally, for it was already banned there) and the South of France in the 1760s, and describes it as "a regular cheats' game".

[5] In the French army, "to be sent to Biribi" was a cant term for being sent to the disciplinary battalions in Algeria.