Sabacc/Legends

Sabacc was a skill and chance card game. Sometimes played for high stakes, in which it was called Jhabacc, it was the game by which Lando Calrissian lost the Millennium Falcon to Han Solo. Calrissian also won the rights to Cloud City and the title of Baron Administrator in a game of sabacc.

In the Outlander Club, the game was played under house rules, with four-armed Kiughfid dealers passing out the cards and taking up money for the house. In other locales, Automated Sabacc dealer droids passed out the cards.

Rules
The game of Sabacc used a deck of 76 cards with 60 numbered cards divided into four suits, and 2 each of 8 special cards. The player was passed four cards to begin the game.

The game played much like real-world Blackjack. The object of the game was to get 23 (Pure Sabacc), or -23 (positive trumps negative). One could get a negative number because some special cards, with the exception of the Idiot card, represented a negative number. Each time the player and his opponent(s) discarded their cards, a new round began. One could only hold two cards at a time between rounds. A player won the game by either calling their hand when they had 23, or -23, or if their hand was below 23 or above -23, but closer to either number than their opponent's. Anything over 23 and under -23 was a bust. A pure zero was also a bust.

House rules stated that:
 * A player could place at most two cards in the neutral field (where they were unaffected by shifting).
 * An Idiot's Array (The Idiot, any 2, any 3) would beat anything, even Pure Sabacc, and would win the Sabacc pot.
 * The bet amount was paid into the Sabacc pot on bust, zero, or loss on call.

There were several styles of sabacc play, including Empress Teta Preferred, Cloud City Casino, and Corellian Gambit. Each system had slightly different rules. There was also a version where fives were wild.

Deck List

 * Coins, Flasks, Sabres, Staves:
 * 1-11
 * Commander (12)
 * Mistress (13)
 * Master (14)
 * Ace (15)


 * Face Cards:
 * Queen of Air and Darkness (2 or -2)
 * Endurance (8 or -8)
 * Balance (11 or -11)
 * Demise (13 or -13)
 * Moderation (14 or -14)
 * The Evil One (15 or -15)
 * The Star (17 or -17)
 * The Idiot (0)

Besides the standard cards listed above, some decks of sabacc also included other types of cards.
 * Non-standard cards:
 * The Destroyed Starship
 * The Satellite
 * The Wheel
 * Chance
 * Hazard
 * Legate (ranked card with value of 11, but trumps ordinary 11)

Appearances

 * Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
 * Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
 * Lando Calrissian and the StarCave of ThonBoka
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Lady Luck
 * Rookies: Rendezvous
 * Star Wars Empire: Idiot's Array
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Crisis on Cloud City
 * The Courtship of Princess Leia
 * Dark Apprentice