faro vs cards

faro and cards both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
faro	Yes	No	No	No
cards	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cards is a hypernym of faro; that is, cards is a word with a broader meaning than faro:

faro: a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
cards: a game played with playing cards

Other hypernyms of faro include card game.

faro (noun)	cards (noun)
a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box	a game played with playing cards