21, a 1xGames card game in Morocco
In "21", a card game played against a dealer, your hand grows through the Hit button: one card per click, and three extra cards at most. On 1xBet in Morocco it sits in the 1xGames collection, with bets placed in MAD.
The 6 holds the lowest rank and the Ace the highest; the total you are after is 21 points.
What each card scores
Card | Points |
|---|---|
6 to 10 | the number on the card |
Jack | 2 |
Queen | 3 |
King | 4 |
Ace | 11 |
A 10 and an Ace reach 21 with just two cards. An Ace with a 6, on the other hand, comes to 17.
A hand from deal to stand
Pick the stake; it is fixed before the game starts.
Two cards come to you and two go to the dealer.
Draw with Hit as many times as you need, within the three-card limit.
Press Stand at the moment you decide to stop drawing.
Here is one way it can go. A Jack and a 7 open your hand at 9. Hit adds an 8 for 17, and another Hit brings a King, worth 4, for exactly 21.
What a hand pays
End on 21, or on a lower total that still tops the dealer's, and the bet is paid at odds of x2. Every other ending follows one of the rules below.
Rule | Effect on the hand |
|---|---|
Dealer under 17 | keeps drawing |
Dealer on 17 or higher | stands |
Over 21 on your side | bust, game lost |
Draw, known as a push | stake refunded |
So a dealer showing 15 has to take another card, whereas a dealer on 17 stays there, whatever your own total is.
The table on screen
The stake shows in a purple bar in the lower part of the green table, with MIN, X2, X/2 and MAX lined up beneath it. Further down are three round buttons: the biggest, marked with a white triangle, sits between a coin-stack button and a green button with circular arrows. Higher up, a golden 21 inside a black spade stands in the centre of the table, under a light banner at the top. On the left, a column of three small icons shows a clock, a question mark and a speaker.
21 next to Circus Poker and Andar Bahar
Circus Poker also lets you shape a hand after the deal, only by swapping rather than adding: five cards are turned face up once the bet is placed, HOLD keeps the ones you want, and the rest are replaced in search of a winning combination. Andar Bahar has no hand to build at all. Its first round is a bet on the suit or value of the Joker card, and in the second you back Andar or Bahar, the side where a card of the Joker's value will turn up.
21 is the only one of the three where points are added up and the dealer follows a fixed threshold. Matches already in progress can be backed under live betting. Registration gives you a MAD account, and Attijari works for deposits into it.