Just wondering how many hands it took for you to get your first natural blackjack hand (out of the required 5) to complete today’s Blackjack Challenge. After more than 125 hands, the Hulu girl finally threw me two natural BJs in a row. Then it took about 50 more hands to get the other 3 natural BJs. Meanwhile, Hulu girl threw herself 10+ natural BJs, 7 of which occurred during the 1st 100 hands or so. Usually, I’m able to complete each daily Challenge in about a few minutes. This one Challenge took me about an hour!
Hello @DoctorO, If you want to speed through the challenge and don’t care about playing properly, try using keyboard shortcuts:
Z = Hit
X = Double (not needed)
C = Stand
Strategy: Bet 100 coins on 5 hands and just hold down the ‘C’ key. This forces an immediate ‘Stand’ on every hand real quick as long as you don’t get natural BJs, splits or insurance otherwise it’s a little slower. Since Natural BJs are awarded right on the deal, you don’t actually need to play the hands out to get credit. A full round takes about 5 seconds this way.
Important Note: Be careful not to double-tap or hold keys like ‘Z’. There is a bug (cc: @Samantha) that triggers uncontrollable speed, causing the game to ‘Hit’ even after you’ve busted or reached 21.
This method took me only about 3 minutes per account.
I played the classic Blackjack @DoctorO and it took 12 rounds of 5 hands per round to get the 5 natural Blackjacks needed, I had 4 times when the insurance question came up and the dealer won 2 of them
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It’s actually a pretty easy challenge. Just play 5 hands using the minimum bet. Knocked mine out in less than 5 minutes,
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Was taking me so long, I swaped out the challenge.
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I appreciated that you told me about this method to use for this particular challenge. I will definitely try it in the future if this challenge comes up again. However, I didn’t try it this last time because usually whenever I split hands or force more than 1 BJ hand per bet, even if I win 1 hand, I always lose if I had any other hand that lost. I’ve only found 1 BJ challenge where I’d win the bet, even if 1 hand won and 1 or more of the other hands lost. So, that’s why I didn’t even think about trying this for a BJ challenge! I do wish CW would program these challenges more consistently and would ALWAYS ALLOW us a win as long as 1 hand out of like 2-5 hands wins!
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You do realize you cannot get an official BJ on split hands right?