Vingt-et-un

This passenger is reported to have lost fourteen pounds at Vingt-et-un in the saloon yesterday; and that passenger drinks his bottle of champagne every day, and how he does it (being only a clerk), nobody knows.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Atkins Vingt-et-un General-Issue is possibly the least strangely named character.

The Science Fiction Top 10 Douglas Hoffman 2005

"If you like," and I took out my dice for the ritual game of Quatre Vingt-et-un.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

The dice rattled on the tables where the French were playing Quatre Vingt-et-un and the girls in the white silk trousers bicycled home down the rue Catinat.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

I played Quatre Vingt-et-un for Communist currency with a Captain Sorel: it wasn't possible to play for drinks as I was a guest of the mess.

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

This passenger is reported to have lost fourteen pounds at Vingt-et-un in the saloon yesterday; and that passenger drinks his bottle of champagne every day, and how he does it (being only a clerk), nobody knows.

American Notes 1842

This passenger is reported to have lost fourteen pounds at Vingt-et-un in the saloon yesterday; and that passenger drinks his bottle of champagne every day, and how he does it (being only a clerk), nobody knows.

American Notes Charles Dickens 1841

Vingt-et-un, as the French, and supposed creators of the game, call it.

unknown title 2011

Vingt-et-un then crossed to North America with the French colonists and received the name Blackjack while going through some changes in the rules, explained above in the game variants section.

unknown title 2009