Blackjack, also called twenty-one, is a card game played between one or more players and a dealer, in which each side tries to build a hand whose card values total as close to 21 as possible without exceeding it. Number cards count at face value, face cards count as ten, and an ace counts as either one or eleven. A player who exceeds 21 busts and loses immediately, and a hand consisting of an ace and a ten-value card is a natural blackjack that beats any other winning hand. The game descends from European gambling card games of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most directly the French game vingt-et-un, and it is now one of the most widely offered banked card games in casinos around the world.
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Player CountWikipedia infobox (Blackjack) players field: '2+, usually 2-7' Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Wikipedia infobox (Blackjack) players field: '2+, usually 2-7' Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Wikipedia infobox (Blackjack) players field: '2+, usually 2-7' Partially Attested
Originating RegionThe earliest evidence of the twenty-one family is the Spanish game veintiuno, but the immediate precursor of blackjack, English vingt-un, is a game of unknown provenance, so the place of origin is not settled. Sport
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Source Double Exposure Blackjack (Wikipedia)
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Baccarat, Games Blackjack and baccarat are both classed as banking card games, in which every player plays against a single banker or dealer rather than against each other, distinguishing them from trick-taking and rummy-family card games where players compete directly against one another.
Source The Oxford Guide to Card Games
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1. Blackjack, Wikipedia
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Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game.
History section
"Rinconete y Cortadillo" was written between 1601 and 1602, implying that veintiuno was played in Castile since the beginning of the 17th century or earlier.
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Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game.
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2+, usually 2-7
View the SourceThe Oxford Guide to Card Games
Oxford University Press, 1990Associated With: Baccarat
Super Fun 21 (Wikipedia)
Ancestor Of: Super Fun 21, Lead sentenceQuote, Ancestor Of: Super Fun 21, Lead sentence
Super Fun 21 is a variation of blackjack.
Double Exposure Blackjack (Wikipedia)
Ancestor Of: Double Exposure Blackjack, Lead sentenceQuote, Ancestor Of: Double Exposure Blackjack, Lead sentence
is a variant of the casino game blackjack
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