Cards Two to Nine count 2 to 9 respectively, courts 10 each, Aces 1 or 11, depending on what is better for the hand.

The shoe games use six or eight Spanish decks, which are regular 52-card decks, minus the ten-spot cards. Like Spanish 21, it is played from either a shoe or a 4-deck continuous shuffling machine (CSM). A player's 21 or pontoon always beats a dealer 21 or pontoon. A 21 consisting of an ace and a card worth 10 is a pontoon, and pays extra. In each deal, the player's aim is to receive cards totalling more in face value than the banker's, but not exceeding 21, otherwise he/she is 'bust' and loses. The Australasian version of pontoon is an arithmetical game played on a table with the same layout as blackjack. Its name may be a corruption of the name of the similar French game. Pontoon, unlike casino Blackjack, has no official rules and varies widely from school to school. In the twentieth century it became the most popular game of the armed forces of English-speaking nations. Pontoon is the British or domestic version of Twenty-One which was originally Vingt-Un (French for twenty-one), a French gambling game popular at the court of Louis XV and later, much favoured by Napoleon, especially at St. The rules for buying in pontoon include allowing the player to buy on any hand of 2 to 4 cards, allowing the player to twist after he buys. British pontoon uses the terms 'twist' (hit), 'stick' (stand) and 'buy' (double the bet, not to be confused with doubling down) and a different set of rules. The British variant of Twenty-One called pontoon is played in the UK and Commonwealth with single 52-card decks. In Jupiters Casino, Gold Coast, it is known as Jupiters 21, in the Reef Casino, Cairns, it is known as Paradise Pontoon, and in Tasmania, it is known as Federal Pontoon. In the Treasury Casino, Brisbane, it is known as Treasury 21. The Malaysian version of pontoon is played in Australian, Malaysian, British, and Singaporean casinos using multiple customized decks of cards.

This game is similar to match play 21 or Spanish 21, while original pontoon, played in Britain, holds closer to the traditional Twenty-One rules, but can be quickly distinguished by the use of the terms 'twist' and 'stick'. It is played by those in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore, where it is usually just called pontoon. Malaysian Pontoon is a card game related to Pontoon and blackjack and, like those games, a descendant of Vingt-Un or Twenty-One. Malaysian variant of the pontoon card game Pontoon, a hand consisting of an ace and a card worth 10 points

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