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Blackjack
Six decks in the shoe, a dealer who stands on soft 17, and a hint button for when you cannot remember what to do with a soft 18 against a nine. Played for virtual coins only.
The blackjack table
Dealer Waiting
Blackjack pays 3 to 2 · Dealer stands on all 17s · No insurance
Pick a bet and press Deal.
Your coins 0
Pick a bet and press Deal. The shoe holds 312 cards and is reshuffled when fewer than 78 remain.
How to play
- Choose a bet of 10, 25, 50 or 100 coins and press Deal. You get two cards face up; the dealer gets one up and one face down.
- Number cards count their number, picture cards count 10, and an ace counts 11 unless that would take you over 21, when it counts 1. A hand with an ace still counting 11 is called soft.
- Hit for another card, Stand to stop. Go over 21 and the hand is bust.
- Double on any first two cards: your bet doubles and you take exactly one more card. You can double after splitting too, except on split aces.
- Split two cards of the same rank into two hands, each with its own bet. One split per round. Split aces get one card each and a 21 made that way counts as 21, not blackjack.
- With an ace or a ten-value card showing, the dealer checks for blackjack before you act. Then the dealer draws to 16 and stands on every 17, soft ones included.
How it pays
| Outcome | Pays | Back on a 25 bet |
|---|---|---|
| Blackjack (ace and ten-value in two cards) | 3 to 2 | 63 |
| Beat the dealer, or dealer busts | 1 to 1 | 50 |
| Push (same total) | stake back | 25 |
| Lower total, bust, or dealer blackjack | — | 0 |
Blackjack pays one and a half times your bet. On a 25-coin bet that is 37½, which we round up to 38 in your favour; on 10, 50 and 100 it is exact. A push is a draw: your stake comes back and nothing is added.
Playing exactly as the hint suggests, our own simulation of 10,000,000 hands with this page's code returned 99.58% of coins staked. Playing on hunches usually returns less. More on the numbers.
18+ Coins here are virtual. They have no cash value, cannot be bought or withdrawn, and nothing you collect can be swapped for money or prizes.