What is sabacc and how do you play?

Sabacc was a game of both 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 object of sabacc was to have a final hand with a total as close to 23 or -23 as possible without going over.

How are all hands figured in sabacc?

All hands are figured based on the numerical sum of the card values. Sabacc’s main objective is to win Credits. There are two pots, the Main Pot and the Sabacc Pot, to be won in Sabacc. Each hand starts with each player placing an ante into both the Main Pot and the Sabacc Pot. Subsequent bets during the hand will be placed only into the Main Pot.

Who is the winner in standard sabacc?

The winner in standard sabacc is the player who holds the hand with an absolute value closest to 23 (with both +23 and −23 being possible); this player wins the hand pot.

What is a sabacc pot in poker?

The sabacc pot is another pot to which players must ante each hand. This special pot can be won only by winning a hand with one of the three trump scores: a pure sabacc of either +23 or −23 (with the former trumping the latter) or an Idiot’s Array.

Did Lucasfilm trademark the term sabacc?

For a long time, Lucasfilm didn’t attempt to trademark the term “sabacc,” which led to the Ren Ventures company, and its subsidiary, the game developer Sabacc Creative Industries, using the name for a 2015 mobile app game, mimicking the gameplay rules of the Star Wars card game. Ren Ventures later registered the U.S. trademark “sabacc” in 2016.

What is the perfect hand in sabacc?

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. Ties were settled by use of a device generating random numbers: the player that rolled the highest number won.

How many different types of sabacc are there?

More than eighty variant forms of sabacc existed. One such form was “Corellian Spike,” which used a pair of six-sided dice and was played with a smaller deck. Jhabacc was another high-stakes variant that was notably played at the Outlander Club, in the Uscru Entertainment District of Coruscant.