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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks Gerry a BIG
help!!!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Tini.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jzs@XMISSION.COM href="mailto:jzs@XMISSION.COM">Jerry Spillman</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=SW-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
href="mailto:SW-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA">SW-L@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:04
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Fwd: Re: Who Can Play BlackJack
Cards in SignWriting? II]</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear Valerie and
List,<BR><BR><I>Small error in this first send, I did not mention that
the #1 card is called the ACE, and normally does not have a number one figure
on the card, although I am sure it does not matter.</I><BR><BR>I'm not sure of
all the rules of the game as the professionals play, but here is how we used
to play it in the service:<BR><BR>The game is normally played with a deck of
cards that are configured as a "POKER" deck, in other words, there is one of
each number, 1-10 in each of four suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades),
with each suit having three face cards called, "King", "Queen", and
"Jack". No "JOKER" cards are used in this game, although sometimes two
are included with a pack, or "deck" of cards.<BR><BR>This game is also called
"21", as that is the winning score. The object is to collect the
appropriate number of cards to add up to 21. If your numbers add up to
over 21, you lose that hand. The ACE of any suit is the wild card,
worth either one or eleven points, you get to choose!<BR><BR>The cards are
dealt to as many players as are included in your game, just one card at a
time, for two times around the group. Now each person should have two
cards in their hand. If anyone receives a combination of a face card and
an ace in this first round, they are to cry out "BLACKJACK", or "21", to
declare they have won. <BR><BR>The "deal" now continues one person at a time
in the same direction of rotation as the first two times around. The
dealer asks, "do you want a card", if you ;do, you say, "yes", and may ask for
another card also if your total is still under 21, or if not, answer no and
the deal proceeds to the next player. This continues until all players
are satisfied that they have a competing number (totalling 21 or less) in
their hand, or their total goes over 21, which eliminates that person from
that "hand". until a new "deal" is performed. Sometimes you can
win with only a 13, because everyone else "went bust", as we would say, or
went over 21 points. If you get an ace and a three, for example, that is
worth four or fourteen points. If you got a six next, that would be a
hand to hold to the end because if you took another card, unless it was an
ace, you would be over 21! However, if you wanted to add the ace as a
four, you could take the six card to make ten, and you could ask the dealer
for another card, perhaps you would get a nine, for a total of 19, a pretty
good number to win with (unless someone else gets 20 or 21). Once the
hand is concluded, only the person with the highest score gets their score
written down (everybody else loses that hand). Then the deck is shuffled
and given to the next person, who becomes the dealer for the next
"hand".<BR><BR>A face card (King, Queen, Jack) is worth 10 points.<BR><BR>Each
number card is worth it's face value (the color is not even a factor) number,
as in 1 of any suit =1 point, a 5 of any suit= 5 points, etc.<BR><BR>Aces of
any suit are worth either 1 or 11 points, as you choose.<BR><BR>A "BLACKJACK"
is when you receive a face card and an ACE at the same time, that is = 21
points, and is considered a winning hand. It outranks a hand with
several cards equalling 21.<BR><BR>There may be more finer points to the game;
I just don't remember. It will play for sure the way I have outlined it,
however.<BR><BR>Jerry.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>