Sabacc Sabacc was a popular card game often played at high stakes , whose goal was to win the sabacc pot by collecting a hand with an absolute value closest to 23 , but no higher . A sabacc deck comprised 76 cards ( 60 distributed in four suits plus 16 special cards ) , all of which had a specific value . However , the value and suit of a card could change at random in play , unless it was placed on the special interference field . Cards . A deck of Sabacc consisted of 76 cards . 60 were distributed in four suits ( Flasks , Sabers , Staves , and Coins ) , with 15 cards per suit : pip cards numbered 1 through 11 , plus a Commander numbered 12 , a Mistress numbered 13 , a Master numbered 14 , and an Ace numbered 15 . The other 16 were two sets of 8 special cards : Balance ( numbered - 11 ) , The Idiot ( 0 ) , Endurance ( - 8 ) , Moderation ( - 14 ) , The Evil One ( - 15 ) , The Queen of Air and Darkness ( - 2 ) , Demise ( - 13 ) , and The Star ( - 17 or - 10 ) . Gameplay . Sabacc was both a game of skill and chance that could be played with as few as two , and as many as eight players . Players could designate a dealer or take turns as the dealer , rotating in a clockwise fashion at the beginning of each hand . The goal of a player was to win the sabacc pot by collecting a hand of cards that totaled positive or negative 23 . The dealer started by shuffling the deck before dealing out one card to each player , including him - or herself , in rotation . He or she would then repeat another rotation until each player had two cards face down . Starting to the dealer ' s left , each player then called out their beginning hand totals . Starting to the dealer ' s left , each player could choose to draw one ( or more ) cards from the deck then choose to trade a card from their hand for one from the deck , or stand . They could then choose to place a single card in the game table ' s interference field to prevent said card from being Shifted if a Sabacc Shift occurred . If a Sabacc Shift occured , all the cards that were not locked in the interference field randomly changed suits and value . That new hand was the player ' s final hand for the round . That same process was repeated by each player , ending with the dealer . Each player then called out his or her final hands toral . The player with the highest hand , totaling 23 or below , won the round . However , a hand of 24 or higher was said to " bomb out " and lost . A perfect hand of 23 or - 23 was called a Pure Sabacc , and it could only be beaten by a rare and unbeatable hand called an Idiot ' s Array , which consisting of The Idiot , a 2 card of any suit , and a 3 card of any suit . Situations of tie were settled by use of a device generating random numbers : the player that rolled the highest number won . Variants . Several variants of sabacc existed . One such variant was " Corellian Spike , " which used a pair of six - sided dice . History . Sabacc was a popular card game played throughout the galaxy , often with high stakes . Because of the random Shifts , Sabacc was a complex and unpredictable game , as a potential winning hand could turn into a losing one if not used at the right moment , and its odds were always in the house ' s favor . In one notable game , Han Solo won the " Millennium Falcon " from Lando Calrissian in a game of " Corellian Spike " sabacc , and Solo kept the pair of golden dice used in that game . In 4 BBY , Garazeb Orrelios of the Spectres bet and lost the astromech droid Chopper to the smuggler Lando Calrissian , who had an Idiot ' s Array . Following the Siege of Inyusu Tor , Commander Tohna of the Sixty - First Mobile Infantry played a game of Sabacc with three other soldiers , Gadren , Brand and Twitch . Tohna invited Captain Hazram Namir to join he did not know how to play and refused . Behind the scenes . Sabacc likely had its origins in the second draft of the script of the " " , when Han Solo mentions that his friend Lando Calrissian won Cloud City in a " sabacca game . " Lucasfilm didn ' t trademarked the term " sabacc " , which let the Ren Ventures company , and the game developer Sabacc Creative Industries , use the name for a 2015 - released mobile app game , mimicking the gameplay rules of the Star Wars card game . Ren Ventures later registered the U . S . trademark " sabacc " in 2016 . With the movie " " coming out in May 25 , 2018 , and featuring the card game , Lucasfilm tried to bring back the trademark in its fold , first challenging the registration in May 2017 , and then filing a federal trademark lawsuit in December 2017 . In April 2018 , Ren Ventures counter - attacked with a lawsuit of their own aimed at marketing materials using the name , in particular the Denny ' s restaurant chain promotional offer of collectible trading cards .