sentences:  Basset was outlawed in 1691, and Pharaoh emerged several years later as a derivative of Basset, before it too was outlawed.Despite the French ban, Pharaoh and Basset continued to be widely played in England during the 18th century, where it was known as "Pharo", an English alternate spelling of "Pharaoh".The game was easy to learn, quick, and when played honestly, the odds for a player were considered by some to be the best of all gambling games, as Gilly Williams records in a letter to George Selwyn in 1752.