    BJ(VI)                       3/15/72                       BJ(VI)

    NAME
         bj - the game of black jack

    SYNOPSIS
         /usr/games/bj

    DESCRIPTION
         Bj is a serious attempt at simulating the dealer in the game
         of black jack (or twenty-one) as might  be  found  in  Reno.
         The following rules apply:

         The bet is $2 every hand.

              A player `natural' (black jack) pays $3.  A dealer nat-
              ural loses $2.  Both dealer and player  naturals  is  a
              `push' (no money exchange).

              If  the  dealer has an ace up, the player is allowed to
              make an `insurance' bet against the chance of a  dealer
              natural.   If  this  bet  is not taken, play resumes as
              normal.  If the bet is taken, it is a  side  bet  where
              the player wins $2 if the dealer has a natural and los-
              es $1 if the dealer does not.

              If the player is dealt two cards of the same value,  he
              is  allowed  to  `double'.   He  is allowed to play two
              hands, each with one of these cards.  (The bet is  dou-
              bled also; $2 on each hand.)

              If a dealt hand has a total of ten or eleven, the play-
              er may `double down'.  He may double the bet ($2 to $4)
              and receive exactly one more card on that hand.

              Under  normal  play, the player may `hit' (draw a card)
              as long as his total is not over  twenty-one.   If  the
              player  `busts' (goes over twenty-one), the dealer wins
              the bet.

              When the player `stands'  (decides  not  to  hit),  the
              dealer  hits  until  he attains a total of seventeen or
              more.  If the dealer busts, the player wins the bet.

              If both player and  dealer  stand,  the  one  with  the
              largest total wins.  A tie is a push.

         The  machine deals and keeps score.  The following questions
         will be asked at appropriate times.  Each  question  is  an-
         swered  by  y  followed by a new line for `yes', or just new
         line for `no'.

         ?    (means, ``do you want a hit?'')
         Insurance?
         Double down?

         Every time the deck is shuffled, the dealer  so  states  and

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         the  `action' (total bet) and `standing' (total won or lost)
         is printed.  To exit, hit the interrupt key  (DEL)  and  the
         action and standing will be printed.

    BUGS

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