Some players call the game blackjack and some call it twenty-one.
No matter what you call it, the object of blackjack was best described in the title of Edward O Thorp's 1963 best selling book that started the blackjack revolution. This article will explain how the game is played. I will write about basic strategy and proper play of hands in an upcoming article. For this example we will assume you are playing a multi-deck game and the cards are being dealt from a shoe. Each player is dealt two cards face up.