Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Blackjack’s precursor was vingt-et-un (”twenty-one”), which originated in French casinos around 1700.

In Blackjack a player competes against the Dealer. The goal of the game for a player is to beat the Dealer’s hand by either getting a better hand without exceeding 21 or by the Dealer’s hand going bust (going over 21). Both the player and the Dealer are dealt two cards, and from there, the player may request as many cards as he wants, as long as he doesn’t exceed the value of 21. After the player finishes with his hand, the same process occurs to the Dealer’s hand, after which the two hands are compared, bets paid or collected.

A Blackjack is a total of 21, when a hand contains an Ace and any ten-valued card (Jack, King, Queen
or Ten), but only in case these two cards are the first two cards dealt to a player or Dealer.

Card Values

Blackjack hands are scored by their point total. In Blackjack, cards are valued in the following way:
• An Ace can be counted as either 1 or 11 (it is explained below).
• The cards from 2 through 9 have their face values.
• 10, Jack, Queen, and King are all valued at 10

The value of a hand is simply the sum of point counts of each card in the hand. For example, a hand containing (5, 7, 9) has the value of 21.

An Ace can be counted either as 1 or 11. An Ace always has the value that makes the best hand. Suppose you have (Ace, 7). The value of this hand can be either 8 or 18. If you stop here, it will be 18.

Let’s assume you’ve drawn one more card. The hand contains (Ace, 7, 8). Its total value is 16.

Game Results/ Payouts

Aftera player stands with a hand (stops to draw cards) and after the Dealer completes his hand, the player’s and the Dealer’s hands are compared.
The winning hand is considered the one, which total is greater. If a hand has BJ, such hand beats any hand including a regular 21. In case the hand total is greater than 21, such hand busts.

A Blackjack game can have three possible results:

Win – A player wins if his hand total is greater than the Dealer’s hand total, without busting (going over 21). WIN indicator appears near the hand.
Lose – The player loses if his hand total is less than the Dealer’s, or if the hand busts. BUST indicator appears next to the corresponding hand.
Push – Push is a situation where both the player’s hand and the dealer’s hand are of equal value. PUSH indicator appears next to the player’s hand.
• A regular win pays out 1 to 1; this means that a $10 bet pays out $10
• Blackjack pays out 3 to 2; this means that a $10 bet pays out $15.
• Insurance bet usually pays out 2 to 1; let’s say, a player’s initial bet is $10, he has Insurance option and decides to place the insurance bet (insurance bet equals half the initial bet), in case the Dealer has Blackjack, a player gets 2:1 on his $5 Insurance wager and receives $10.

How to Play

Placing a bet

You are allowed to bet on up to three hands and play for central, right and left players.

To place a bet, use betting chips found at the bottom right part of the table. To select a chip, click the desired one with the left mouse button. You may need several chips to reach the desired bet amount; in this case the stack of chips will be formed on the betting area. To place a chip, use one of the ways provided below:
• Click a betting spot where you want to place the selected chip.
• Drag and drop the chosen chip on the desired betting square.
• Click Repeat button to place a bet equal to the previous one
(Note: in case it is your first bet, Repeat control is disabled).

The total bet value is displayed in a small square beside the chips placed. The betting limits are displayed in the frame at the top left side of the game table.

Removing/Decreasing a bet

To remove a bet completely or decrease its value, you need to remove a chip (chips) placed. You may do it in several ways:
• Click and drag chips from the table to the betting chips area.
• Select ‘X’ chip and then click the chip/stack of chips placed. The chips will be removed one by one.
• Press CTRL and then left click the chip/stack of chips placed. The chips will be removed one by one.
• Use Clear control to remove all the chips currently placed on the table.

Dealing

Click Deal button to start dealing cards. Once the button is clicked, both you and the Dealer are dealt two cards. You receive cards face up, the Dealer – one card face down, the other one – face up.

If you play multiple hands, several hands will be dealt to you. For each hand, two cards are dealt face up. In this case each hand will be treated separately.

Note: If you are dealt Blackjack, you are immediately paid 1.5 times the placed bet, unless the Dealer also has Blackjack, in which case it is a Push.

The Dealer starts playing his hand once all the player’s hands are completed. The Dealer stands on 17.

Game Options

To proceed with the game:

• Click Hit button to draw an additional card to a hand (You may draw as many cards as required. If the total reaches 21, you are not allowed to hit any more. If your hand busts (its total exceeds 21), this hand is removed from the table and you lose).
• Click Stand button to stop drawing cards to a hand (‘STOP’ flag will be displayed for a moment)
• Click Double to make use of use Double option, it can be used once you are dealt two cards. Once Double control is clicked, your original bet amount will be doubled and you’ll be dealt one more card.
No more cards can be drawn for this hand.

Depending on the game situation Split and Insurance options may become available.

Split – If first two cards are of the same value (two Aces, two Sevens, etc), you may use ‘Split’ option. Jack, King, Queen have value of 10, therefore two face cards are considered to be acceptable for splitting. This rule applies if you have a Jack and a Ten, for example, or a King and a Ten.

Once Split control is clicked, your hand is split into two separate hands. One card is dealt from the shoe to each of two hands, and one more bet is placed on the betting area, equal to the original bet. Each hand
formed is treated as usual. It is allowed to split a hand only once.

Insurance – This option becomes available if the Dealer’s up card is an Ace. In this case, a player has the possibility to insure against the dealer’s Blackjack. ‘Insurance’ message, ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ controls appear on the game table.

To make an Insurance bet click Yes button. In this case an additional bet will be placed, equal to half your initial bet.
• If the Dealer does have a Blackjack, you lose the original bet but your insurance returns 2 to 1. The game continues in its normal way.
• If the Dealer does not have Blackjack, Stand, Hit and Double buttons become available to proceed with the game.

Note: To start playing a new game round, click New Game button.To repeat the bets placed in the previous game round, use Repeat control.

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Video Slots are practically the same as regular slots but they use a video display and five reels, instead of three spinning wheels found on the traditional three-reel format. There are enhanced graphics and other
video and audio effects which create an exciting playing experience. Whereas three-reel slots usually have one payline, video slots always have more than one and sometimes as many as nine paylines. As in three-reel slots, various symbol combinations falling on the activated paylines is what generates a win and payout. The bonus games feature is the latest and most popular development of the video slots machines.
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How to Play

Mystic Slots machine has five reels and nine paylines.

The objective of the game is to spin the reels so that the symbols form a winning combination on at least one of the paylines.

Paylines are straight or zigzagged lines that cross through one symbol on each reel, along which a winning combination is evaluated. Each of paylines is highlighted at the game screen in a particular color. These are nine possible paylines:

At the bottom part of the screen there is the control panel with the help of which a player can control the game flow.

Value field displays the unit stake value (bet per line value).

Bet shows the total bet value equal to (Bet per line value) x (Number of lines wagered).

Free Spins displays the number of free spins granted to a player as a bonus.

Win field displays the win amount once the winning combination is formed on the reels. It equals (Bet per line value) x (Number of points won according to the payout table).

Placing bets / Spin round

Placing a bet in Video Slots games means selecting the number of lines to bet on and bet per line value.
•    To set the bet per line value use ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons on both sides of Value field. Minimal bet per line value is 0.1, maximal credit value is 5. So the maximum possible bet amount totals 45. It is calculated as follows: 5 (bet per line value) x 9 (number of active paylines).
•   To set the number of active lines per spin, click Lines button. With each click on the button the number of active paylines will be increased by one. Active lines are highlighted with the corresponding colors at the main game screen.

Note: On both sides of each payline there are two buttons displaying its number. To set the number of active paylines, you may click the corresponding payline button. Thus, to wager on 4 paylines, click Payline Button 4. After clicking the mentioned button 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th paylines will be wagered and highlighted.
• To start reels spin, click Spin button.
• To place a maximum bet of 9 paylines, use Bet Max control. Once Bet Max control is clicked, the reels start spinning automatically.
• To view the payout table, click View Payout button. To return to the main game screen use Back to Game control. To read the short bonus game description click Bonus Game button.

Once the reels stop spinning and there is no winning combination formed on the payline, all the buttons at the control panel become activated and you can place a new bet. In case there is a winning combination along one of the paylines formed, it is animated and the corresponding field in the payout table starts blinking.

Auto Spin option

This option allows selecting a number of spin repeats with the selected number of paylines and bet per line value.
•  Click Auto Spin button to activate this option. The screen for selecting the number of spins appears.

•  Use ‘+’ and ‘-’ buttons to select the number of spins. You may select 10, 20, 50 or 100 spin repeats.
•  Click No to close the screen.
•  Click Yes for the reels to start spin. When Yes button is clicked, Auto Spin button is replaced by Stop button. To stop the reels, use Stop control or click anywhere on the reels.

Bonus Features

•   Wild Symbol

Mystery Slots game has a Wild Symbol, which substitutes for any symbol (except for Scatter and Bonus symbols) and helps to form a winning combination. The wildsymbol does not pay anything by itself.

• Bonus Symbol and Bonus Game

The combination of 3 or more bonus symbols on any active payline triggers ‘Shady Conquest’ bonus game.

•  Scatter symbol and Free Spins

In case a combination of 3 Scatter symbols is formed anywhere on the reels, a player is granted 5 free spins.

A combination of 4 Scatter symbols formed anywhere on the reels brings a player 10 free spins.

5 Scatter symbols formed provides you with 20 Free spins.

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