Nice! Is the deck ‘infinite’ or are you shuffling a set amount of decks together and dealing from the limited set?
The deck has 52 cards and is shuffled once 75% of the cards have been delt
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#42Great job!
For people not very into BJ - there are rules available with pretty binary decisions trees (depending on rules). Quick google search brought https://www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/blackjack-strategy-c... but there are plenty of other resources. Essentially, I believe there is always a perfect strategy available that should guarantee profit (given unlimited cash available to play unlimited game)
Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
#43Nice game. I'm glad you identified the major problem in many online blackjack toys - that they've got a scummy vibe to them - and done a clean break from that. Some ideas: * Keyboard shortcuts would be welcome - the click targets are grouped together on desktop and are not very large. * Upscaling the game on desktop would be helpful for usability, it's quite small currently. * I know it's just a hobby project, but it…
Excellent suggestions, thanks! Any key recommendations for the shortcuts?
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#44From the about page: Towards the end of 2017, I found myself wanting to play a quick game of something while I was working. That something turned out to be blackjack. I tried a few web-based games and downloaded a bunch to my phone. All of them either felt kinda scammy, were hard to look at, or just played way too slow. I like making things, so I made Blackjack Break. I hope it's a fun diversion for you like it is fo…
Very nicely done, enjoyed playing it! My only wish would be to hit after split, though the way you handled it is perfectly valid.
Thanks, never played in a casino - Are the left and right hand cards hit immediately after splitting?
Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
#45This would be a great candidate for automatic light/dark mode with the prefers-color-scheme css option.
Thanks, I'll experiment with this.
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#46I was looking for this! Works great on the Tesla touch screen while charging.
So cool, I love it!
Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game
#47Great job! For people not very into BJ - there are rules available with pretty binary decisions trees (depending on rules). Quick google search brought https://www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/blackjack-strategy-c... but there are plenty of other resources. Essentially, I believe there is always a perfect strategy available that should guarantee profit (given unlimited cash available to play unlimited game)
Without counting (which is not possible with this version since there is no shoe or deck to count from), optimal (basic) strategy will guarantee a loss in the long run. If there was a basic strategy which guaranteed profit for the player, no casino would offer this game.
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#48Is this open source? I kinda want to try training a Blackjack AI, and the clean minimal design for here could help if I try giving the game state to the AI as an image. Also it would be fun to play with data of everyone's games if you're collecting them.
> clean minimal design The design is so minimal I thought it wasn't loading correctly for me.
Seems I may have taken the minimal aesthetic too far :)
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#49I don’t know if it’s just me, but on iOS I have to double tap the links sometimes to get them to fire.
I'll increase the clickable area of the links. That may fix this.
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#50Very cool. Addictive.
Thanks!