The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck. They are proficient at cheating at veintiuna (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. Cervantes was a gambler, and the protagonists of his ' Rinconete y Cortadillo', from Novelas Ejemplares, are card cheats in Seville.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. The game is a comparing card game where each player competes against the dealer.īlackjack's immediate precursor was the English version of twenty-one called Vingt-Un, a game of unknown (but likely Spanish) provenance. Blackjack players do not compete against each other. This family of card games also includes the European games Vingt-et-Un and Pontoon, and the Russian game Ochko. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as Twenty-One. : 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. Pontoon, Twenty-One, Siebzehn und Vier, Vingt-et-Unīlackjack (formerly Black Jack and Vingt-Un) is a casino banking game. A Blackjack example, consisting of an Ace and a 10-valued card

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