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The Daily Blackjack Deal

One shoe a day, the same for everyone. The score is how many of your decisions matched the strategy chart, not what the cards paid.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

Daily deal

Preparing today's deal

20 hands

Dealer

Preparing today's deal.

Session coach

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your hands the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

One bet size, on purpose

Every hand in the daily deal is 10 chips. With the bet fixed there is nothing to chase and nothing to press, so the only thing left to get right is the decision. That is the one part of blackjack a player controls.

Next bet

10 chips at a 0.41% house edge: an expected cost of 0 chips.

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Strategy coach

Each decision is checked against the basic strategy chart for this table the moment you make it. The coach grades the choice, never how the hand turned out.

Everyone who opens this page on the same UTC date gets the same shoe, and 20 hands from it at 10 chips each. The cards decide who wins a hand, so chips say little over a deal this short. Whether each choice matched the chart is the part that was up to you, and it is the only thing scored. No score or result is saved between visits, and there is no streak to keep. The spots you play off the chart are kept in this browser only, so the coach can drill them.

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This session

Hands played
0 of 20
Decisions on the chart
None yet
Net chips
0
Deal date (UTC)
Preparing

Decisions on the chart is the score. Net chips is what the cards did with a flat 10 chip bet, shown for the record. At this table chart play still gives the house about 0.41% of each opening bet, so a perfect score does not mean a winning deal.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Hands in each day's deal
20
Cards in the shoe, in the same order for every player
312
Play chips on every hand, fixed
10
House edge at these rules when every decision matches the chart
0.41%

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One shoe a day, scored on decisions

Every day there is one deal: 20 hands from a 6-deck shoe, at a flat 10 play chips a hand.

The shoe is shuffled from the date, so everyone who plays on the same day is dealt from the same cards, and two people who make the same decisions see exactly the same hands. That makes a result something you can compare with a friend, which a normal shuffle never allows.

Hand 1 of the October 3, 2026 deal
Every playerDealer shows

Hard 19 against an ace

The chart plays: Decline insurance

Whoever opened the deal on this date was dealt this hand first. From the first decision on, the cards each player sees depend on what they chose.

What gets compared is the decisions.

Each hit, stand, double, split and insurance answer is checked against basic strategy the moment you make it, and the score at the end is how many matched. Chips are shown as a plain fact and nothing more, because over 20 hands they are mostly luck: a player who misplays half the deal can finish ahead of one who plays it perfectly. No score or result is saved between visits and there is no streak to protect. The only thing kept, in your own browser, is a list of the spots you played off the chart, so the coach can drill them. Play it when you feel like it.

7 daily shoes, every decision played by the chart
ShoeOn the chartChips
September 27, 202629 of 29−30
September 28, 202626 of 26+65
September 29, 202623 of 23+35
September 30, 202628 of 28+25
October 1, 202628 of 280
October 2, 202624 of 24−45
October 3, 202633 of 33−45

The same play on every shoe, at 10 chips a hand over 20 hands. The chip column is the cards, which is why it is not the score.

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Rules at this table

  • 20 hands a day, every one at a fixed bet of 10 play chips.
  • One 6-deck shoe per UTC date, the same for every player that day.
  • Blackjack pays 3 to 2.
  • The dealer stands on every 17, soft 17 included.
  • The dealer checks for blackjack under an ace or a ten before you act.
  • Double down on any first two cards, including after a split.
  • Split any pair, or any two ten-value cards, up to 4 hands.
  • Split aces get one card each and cannot be split again.
  • Insurance is offered against an ace and pays 2 to 1.
  • The score is decisions that matched the chart, out of decisions made.

  • The day changes at midnight UTC. A deal you have started stays the same until you finish it.

    H
    Hit
    S
    Stand
    D
    Double
    P
    Split
    Y
    Take insurance
    N
    Decline insurance
    Enter
    Deal the next hand

FAQ

Is the daily blackjack deal played for real money?
No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
Does everyone really get the same cards?
Everyone gets the same shoe: the same 312 cards in the same order for a given UTC date. The first hand is identical for every player. After that, the cards you see depend on your decisions, because a hit takes a card that would otherwise have gone to the next hand. Two players who make the same decisions all the way through see exactly the same deal.
Why is the score decisions and not chips?
Because the decisions are the part a player controls. Over 20 hands the chip result is dominated by which cards came out, so it says very little about how well the deal was played. Whether each choice matched basic strategy is exact, and it is the same skill the blackjack strategy chart teaches.
What happens if I miss a day?
Nothing. The page keeps no record of your visits, your scores or your results, so there is no streak to lose and nothing to catch up on. Each day's deal stands on its own, and you can replay today's shoe as many times as you like.

How this game works

The date, read in UTC as a year, month and day, is hashed to a 32-bit number, and that number seeds a small deterministic generator (mulberry32). The generator drives the same Fisher-Yates shuffle the free blackjack table uses, over the same 312 cards, so the shoe is fixed by the date and by nothing else. It does not depend on your device, your earlier results or how you play. The date is read in your browser when the page opens.

The rules and the grading are the blackjack table's own. Every decision is compared with the basic strategy chart for this rule set: a pair that cannot be split is played as its total, and a double that is not available falls back to standing on soft 18 and hitting everything else. Insurance counts as a decision, and the chart never takes it. Each hand is dealt as if from a full stack of chips, so a losing run never removes a double or a split from the choices and never changes what the chart would play.

The summary also shows what chart play would have scored in chips on the same shoe. That figure comes from replaying the whole deal in the same engine with every decision taken from the chart. At these rules chart play leaves the house an edge of about 0.41% of each opening bet, so a perfect score is the least costly way to play the deal, not a way to win it.

Limits

  • The chart replay is not a hand-for-hand comparison. One different decision changes which cards every later hand receives, so the two results come from different hands after the first difference.
  • The generator has a 32-bit seed, so a daily shoe is one of about 4.3 billion orderings it can produce, not one of every possible ordering of the cards. That is ample for a practice deal and would not be acceptable for a game played for money.
  • Because the shoe is fixed by the date, it can be worked out in advance by anyone who reads how this page works. The score is for your own practice and proves nothing to anyone else.
  • The chart is a total-dependent basic strategy. It ignores the cards already dealt, so it is not a counting system.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Blackjack played for money has a house edge on every hand, and matching the chart on every decision does not remove it.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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