Sabacc

"Then how about we settle that debt with a little game of sabacc?"

- Lando Calrissian to Hera Syndulla

Sabacc was a card game played in the galaxy. A sabacc deck comprised a number of face cards (including the Idiot, the Queen, and the Evil One ) and four suits of fifteen pip cards (Flasks, Sabers, Staves, and Coins). The face value of the cards changed at random in play, but was locked as soon as the cards were placed on the sabacc table's special suspension field. That particularity made sabacc a complex and unpredicatble game, as a potential winning hand could turn into a losing one if not used at the right moment.

A sabacc player's goal was to win the sabacc pot by collecting a hand of cards that totaled positive or negative 23, which generally would constitute a winning hand also called sabacc. That hand could only be beaten by a rare and unbeatable hand called an Idiot's Array, which were three cards with a 0, a 2, and a 3.

Appearances

 * Tarkin
 * A New Dawn
 * Star Wars 5: Skywalker Strikes, Part V
 * Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars 5: Skywalker Strikes, Part V
 * Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back