Blackjack

Blackjack
	A blackjack example, consisting of an ace and a 10-valued card
Alternative names	Twenty-one
Type	Comparing
Players	2+, usually 2–7
Skills	Probability, Memorization
Cards	52 to 416 (one to eight 52-card decks)
Deck	French
Play	Clockwise
Chance	High
Related games
	Pontoon, twenty-one, Siebzehn und Vier, vingt-et-un

Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game.^[1]^: 342 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 Ochko [ru].^[2] The game is a comparing card game where players compete against the dealer, rather than each other.

^ Scarne, John (1986). Scarne's new complete guide to gambling (Fully rev., expanded, updated ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671630638.
^ Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford guide to card games. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-214165-1. OCLC 20852782.

[Scarne-1] Scarne, John (1986). Scarne's new complete guide to gambling (Fully rev., expanded, updated ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671630638.

[2] Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford guide to card games. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-214165-1. OCLC 20852782.

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