They can choose to 'hit' (receive another card) or 'stick' (stay with their current hand) as they attempt to get as close as possible to 21. To start a hand, players place their bets and are dealt two cards face up. In Blackjack, numbered cards (2 through 10) are worth their face value, picture cards (jack, queen, and king) are worth 10, and an ace is worth either 1 or 11 depending on your other cards. The goal of the game is to get as close as possible to a hand worth 21 points as the dealer flips over your cards – but go over and you're out! This tutorial is also extracted from an entire course on building a Blackjack game using a graphical user environment (GUI), which you can check out here if you're interested.īlackjack is a gambling game that requires only a deck of cards. While building the game, we'll explore a few handy Python concepts, such as object-oriented programming using classes and how to manage a game loop. In this tutorial, we'll cover how to build a command line game for playing Blackjack using Python! You'll get to build the game from start to finish, and when you're done, you'll have a fully functioning game to play from the command line.
