File:BlackJackGame.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
blackjack
Sign in to saveAlso known as Card Games/Blackjack
Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one". This family of card games also includes the European games vingt-et-un and pontoon, and the Russian game . The game is a comparing card game where players compete against the dealer, rather than each other.
Blackjack is a casino card game where players compete against a dealer rather than each other, using standard 52-card decks and trying to reach a hand value of twenty-one. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world and belongs to a global family of similar card games.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Card game.title
- Blackjack
- Card game.image_link
- BlackJackGame.jpg
- Card game.image_caption
- A blackjack example, consisting of an ace and a 10-valued jack card
- Card game.alt_names
- Twenty-one
- Card game.type
- Comparing
- Card game.players
- 2+, usually 2–7
- Card game.play
- Clockwise
- Card game.num_cards
- 52 to 416 (one to eight 52-card decks)
- Card game.deck
- French
- Card game.related
- Pontoon, twenty-one, Siebzehn und Vier, vingt-et-un
- Card game.random_chance
- High
- Card game.skills
- Probability, Memorization
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Blackjack game example.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Blackjack
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/blackjack
- native label
- Blackjack
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~45 min read
Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Rules of play at casinos
- Player decisions
- Insurance
- Rule variations and effects on house edge
- Blackjack strategy
- Basic strategy
- Composition-dependent strategy
- Advantage play
- Card counting
- Shuffle tracking
- Identifying concealed cards
- Side bets
- Video blackjack
- Variants and related games
- Blackjack Hall of Fame
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- General literature
- Blackjack literature
- Mathematics of blackjack
- External links
Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one". This family of card games also includes the European games vingt-et-un and pontoon, and the Russian game . The game is a comparing card game where players compete against the dealer, rather than each other.
==History== Blackjack's immediate precursor was the English version of twenty-one called vingt-un, a game of unknown provenance. The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes was a gambler, and the protagonists of his "Rinconete y Cortadillo", from Novelas Ejemplares, are card cheats in Seville. They are proficient at cheating at veintiuno (Spanish for "twenty-one") and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without going over and that the ace values 1 or 11. The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck.