House of Blackjack 21

Like so many before me this game is rigged. You finally get to where you can actually win and here comes a player, sits down, plays 2 maybe 3 hands. Does the stupidest gameplay and off he goes. So does your chance of winning. The dealer will get 20, 21 consistently, the player before you will hit on an 18 and get the 5/6 you need. When you hit here comes a 10. But better yet, don’t hit, history deals you a 10 time and time again, don’t hit and the dealer gets the 5/6 you needed and now has 21. Everyone at the table loses. I don’t typically purchase chips, yet for the first time today, I did, I can’t win a hand no matter what I do. My cards are 12,13,14,15,16, nothing else at all. The odds of that are what? To the computer generated response….don’t bother. Too many before me and nothing has changed. Oh and enjoy my dollar you will never get another one. To everyone else, seriously I have list 6 million at 250 thousand a hand and have not won one hand. 24 hands, not one win, not one tie???? That’s only the count since I have been paying attention. The true count is much higher than that. I’m off to Lise the rest of my chips and then delete the app, I’m pretty sure it will be no more than 2 hours or so.

The game itself is pretty fun. Has a lot of advertising in it to get you to buy something so that’s a little annoying. I mainly just play the black Jack portion of it. The dealer seems to always win over the players. I think it’s driven that way so you burn through your chips and end up buying more to stay in the games. I wish I could get the cards the dealer does because the computer always seems to pull a 20 or 21 somehow while I get delt a lot of horrible 15s or 13s and it comes down to either taking a card and busting or simply loosing to the dealer because they seems to most of the time have something a little better then you. Going to guess it’s probably so you burn through those chips and buy more. Another thing I don’t like is once you have a certain amount of money you will get bumped up on what your minimum is you can bid which I think is another way you get cornered into buying more chips because the computer will always win more then you so if you have more money you get forced to have to bid more as a minimum. It should be up to the player on how much they want to bid not forced to bid a high minimum just because I have more money. But I get it they want you to loose more so they make your minimum higher so you end up loosing your chips faster and you get forced into buying more.

Having tried many of the other free Blackjack titles in the App Store, I was assuming this would be just one more with a crooked house and bland presentation. Boy was I wrong. This title, by the Korean NEOWIZ Corporation, feels like classic Japanese casino games like Casino Kid and Vegas Stakes. There is a colorful lobby, themed tables, drawn dealers with their own voicework, and MUSIC! Jazzy, Lounge Lizard music that fits the casino aesthetic perfectly. No more silence and terrible sound effects like in every other Blackjack app on the Store. There are also missions, a “wheel of fortune” you can spin periodically to win more chips, and best of all, realistic odds—I can actually win in this app and not feel like the dealer is slipping a 9 out of his sleeve every hand. It’s free to play, but know you will be bombarded constantly with ads to buy more chips. Still, with its presentation alone this one trumps every other Blackjack title on the App Store. Download this one and skip all the others.