Description

Six deck blackjack for the Pebble Time 2.

Tap a chip to bet, tap DEAL, play the hand. Your total sits in a badge next to your cards so you're not doing arithmetic on a watch, and soft hands show both numbers (7/17) so you can see when an ace is still doing you a favor.

The three buttons along the bottom are Double, Hit and Stand, left to right. Each one is wired to the physical button beside it (up, select, down) and carries a small mark so you can tell which is which without checking the manual. Double greys out when you can't double, rather than disappearing, so Hit stays in the middle of the bar whatever you're holding.

Splitting had to go somewhere else, since there's no fourth button to give it. Get a pair and your cards pick up a gold outline with a SPLIT tag beside them. Tap the cards. Holding the up button does the same thing if you'd rather not touch the screen.

The rules are the ones you'd get at a table. Six decks, reshuffled about three quarters of the way through the shoe. Dealer stands on all 17 and peeks on an ace or a ten. Blackjack pays 3 to 2. You can double any first two cards including after a split, split a pair once, and take insurance when the dealer shows an ace. Split aces get one card each and stand, same as the real thing.

You start with $500. The app keeps your best bankroll as a high score, and it counts money that's still sitting on the table, so a $700 bet that loses still records $700. Bust out completely and you get a game over screen with your record on it and a fresh $500 to start again.

*Reminder $$ is not real money and is only in-game cash*