Blackjack

A hand of blackjack in the panel, keyboard only. Enter on the palette's row (or its hotkey) opens the table as a view level: the search input gives way to the phase ("Place your bet", "Your turn", "Dealer busts"), the footer shows the primary key, and cmd+k lists every move with its key. The table is a render tree the extension builds from a pure game state (game.ts, render.ts); every key is a pick whose action is the move, and the reply is the next tree, so a hit rises in, the hole card flips over and a split moves its card across.

Betting: + and - move the bet by the minimum, Enter deals.
Playing: H hit, S stand, D double down (first two cards, one card then stand), P split (a pair, once; split aces take one card each). Totals show live next to each hand (Soft 17); the dealer's hole card stays face down until you stand, then flips and the dealer draws to 17.
Settled: the result and the net for the hand, Enter for the next hand. N starts a new game (asks first) with a fresh bankroll and record.
Escape leaves at any point; the hand, the bankroll and the record persist in the extension's storage after every move, so the table is as you left it next time, across restarts too.

The status line has the bet, the bankroll, the record (hands, wins, losses, pushes, blackjacks, the net) and a bar for how much of the shoe is left.

Rules: dealer stands on 17 (soft 17 too unless dealer_hits_soft_17), blackjack pays 3:2, a dealer blackjack is checked at once, doubling after a split is allowed, no surrender. The shoe is decks decks and is reshuffled before a deal once under a quarter of it is left. Insurance is offered on an ace only with insurance = true, costs half the bet and pays 2:1; I takes it, Enter plays on. Out of chips (a bankroll under the minimum bet) leaves only New game.

Cards are drawn by the extension as SVG (rank and suit indices, pips laid out as on a real deck), so nothing is loaded from disk; the view vocabulary they ride on is in the extensions guide.

Keyboard

Only the moves legal in the phase are offered; the footer names the primary one and cmd+k lists the rest.

keys	action	when
`enter`	Deal; Next hand once settled; No insurance when asked	betting, settled, insurance
`+`, `-`	Raise or lower the bet by the minimum	betting
`h`	Hit	playing
`s`	Stand	playing
`d`	Double down	the first two cards of a hand
`p`	Split	a pair, once per hand
`i`	Take insurance	the dealer shows an ace and `insurance` is on
`n`	New game: a fresh bankroll and record; asks first	any phase
`cmd+k`	Every move with its key
`escape`	Leave the table; the hand waits

Setup

Nothing to install and no permission. The game state lives in the extension's storage (<data dir>/pal/storage/blackjack.json), shared by every config profile; New game is the way to clear it.

Settings, [extensions.blackjack]:

key	type	default	what
`decks`	number, 1 to 8	`6`	Decks in the shoe; it is reshuffled once a quarter is left.
`starting_bankroll`	number	`1000`	Chips a new game starts with.
`min_bet`	number	`10`	The smallest bet, and the step `+` and `-` move it by.
`dealer_hits_soft_17`	bool	`false`	The dealer draws on a soft 17 (H17) instead of standing (S17).
`insurance`	bool	`false`	Ask about insurance when the dealer shows an ace.

A settings change applies to the next deal; the bankroll and the record are kept.

What it does not do

Surrender, re-splitting (a pair splits once), or hitting split aces.
Card counting aids: the shoe bar says how much is left, nothing more.
More than one player, or a bet above the bankroll (the bet is capped by what you have).
Mouse play: the table is keyboard only, as the whole panel is.

Platforms

macOS and Linux, the same on both: everything is in-process and the cards are drawn by the extension.

Blackjack

What it does

Blackjack

Keyboard

Setup

What it does not do

Platforms

Palettes 1

Actions

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