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Blackjack — aiOrion GamesInternational card game · Later

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Blackjack

One dealer. Three choices. Twenty-one or less.

Two tables, one app: a clean, relaxed Blackjack with solved basic-strategy guidance, and Same Cards — the duplicate table where every seat is dealt identical cards, so luck cancels and the best decisions win. Table chips are for play only: no real-money wagering and no cash-out.

2 games in one2–6 seats against the dealerApple OS 27iPhone Duo readyNo adsOn-device play
Release date to be announcedRead the rules
Blackjack game artwork

Learn

Learn the game before you play it.

An illustrated, animated walkthrough of the rules, plus a short read on what the game asks of your mind. Both open here in your browser — no download, no account.

How to play BlackjackWhat it trains in your mind

A guide for every variant

The rules

How it plays

  1. Play from a six-deck shoe; number cards count at face value, face cards count ten and an ace counts one or eleven.
  2. Each player receives two cards while the dealer shows one card and keeps one hidden.
  3. Choose hit, stand or double; doubling takes exactly one additional card and then stands.
  4. A total above 21 busts immediately.
  5. Beat the dealer's final total; a two-card 21 receives the configured natural payout.

Played as a challenge. A game is a sitting of ten deals: every seat carries the same starting coins and races to double them first — run out and you are out. The Same Cards table deals every seat the identical hand from the identical shoe, so the standings measure decisions and bet sizing alone; after each deal the results show what basic strategy would have made of the very same cards.

Availability note. This game arrives after the first catalogue, with its own release date still to be announced. Everything on this page describes the game as it will ship.

Ways to play

2 games for the price of one.

Every variant here is a game of its own — its own rules and legal-move checking, its own tables, its own illustrated guide, its own daily challenge, its own achievements and its own taught first game that walks you in. One purchase brings all 2. Each option below changes the table while keeping the engine's legal-move checks in charge.

Blackjack

Classic Blackjack: 2–6 seats race to double their coins against the dealer, getting as close to 21 as they can without busting.

  • Standard Blackjack played against the dealer with a multi-deck shoe.
  • Hit, stand, or double to get closer to 21 than the dealer without going over; an ace counts eleven or one.
  • The dealer plays a fixed hand, and a two-card 21 ('blackjack') pays a bonus.
  • Table rules (dealer hits soft 17, blackjack payout, whether insurance is offered) are configurable in the template.

Arena

  • Blackjack Arena — ten deals4 players · solo
  • Blackjack Arena — heads-up, ten deals2 players · solo

Tournaments

  • Elimination Blackjack — heads-upknockout of 8 · 2 a table · solo
  • Elimination Blackjack — full tableknockout of 8 · 4 a table · solo

Same Cards

The challenge table: every seat plays the identical cards, so the best decisions win — luck cancels.

  • Blackjack as a duel of judgement. Every seat receives the same starting hand, draws the same cards, and faces a dealer playing out the same shoe — so over a sitting the standings measure decisions and bet sizing, never the luck of the draw.
  • After each deal the results compare your play with basic strategy on the very same cards, so every hand teaches something.
  • Insurance is off at this table; it returns on the classic variant.

Arena

  • Blackjack Arena, same cards — ten deals4 players · solo
  • Blackjack Arena, same cards — heads-up, ten deals2 players · solo

Tournaments

  • Elimination, same cards — heads-upknockout of 8 · 2 a table · solo
  • Elimination, same cards — full tableknockout of 8 · 4 a table · solo

Every online table is a ladder. Each Arena table and each tournament above comes at four entry levels — Challenge 10 GC, Contest 50 GC, Championship 200 GC, and a Friendly 1 GC table that returns the coin to everyone who finishes. The higher the entry level, the more places share the reward; aiOrion keeps 10% of a paid table's entries to pay for running the online game, and nothing from a Friendly one.

Make it yours. Start from any of these, adjust the settings the game allows, and save it as your own template. Online tables start the same way: copy one of the Arena tables, then set the entry, the rewards and who may join.

aiOrion events

Events in Blackjack.

aiOrion's own tournaments in this game, read live from the game server: when the next ones are and how many places are taken. You enter from inside the app; the entry pays for the online game, and winning earns a reward.

Times are shown in your time zone.

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What is inside

Built around the game, not the grind.

01

Solved basic-strategy guidance

Optional, mathematically-correct hints teach you the right play in every spot.

02

Configurable dealer rule (H17/S17)

Set whether the dealer hits or stands on soft 17, just like your favourite table.

03

Configurable natural payout

Choose a 3:2, 6:5 or even-money blackjack payout.

04

Fast local tables

Deal, decide and move on — quick hands with no waiting.

05

No real-money wagering or cash-out

Chips are for play only: no real money in, no cash out.

Next move

Coming after the first catalogue.

Explore every title now; the month labels are approximate, and each release waits until the one before it has settled in. The same rules and identity run on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro.

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