All twenty-one synonyms
twen·ty-one
T t noun twenty-one
- game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
- lotto — a game of chance in which a leader draws numbered disks at random from a stock and the players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards, the winner being the first to cover a complete row.
- gin — a female Aborigine.
- gin rummy — gin4 (def 1).
- craps — a gambling game using two dice, in which a player wins the bet if 7 or 11 is thrown first, and loses if 2, 3, or 12 is thrown
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- bingo — Bingo is a game in which each player has a card with numbers on. Someone calls out numbers and if you are the first person to have all your numbers called out, you win the game.
- canasta — a card game for two to six players who seek to amass points by declaring sets of cards