
The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck. They are proficient at cheating at veintiuna (Spanish for "twenty-one") and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without going over and that the ace values 1 or 11. Cervantes was a gambler, and the protagonists of his " Rinconete y Cortadillo", from Novelas Ejemplares, are card cheats in Seville.


The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. 3 Rule variations and effects on house edgeīlackjack's immediate precursor was the English version of twenty-one called Vingt-Un, a game of unknown (but probably Spanish) provenance.
