"[1] It debuted in the 1983 novel Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu by L. Neil Smith, and has also been portrayed in a number of other works of the franchise, such as Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), the first film to actually depict a sabacc game being played.
[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] An online sabacc-themed event was also used as part of the promotional campaign for Solo: A Star Wars Story before the movie's official launch.
[13] A simplified version based on the 1989 ruleset was given a limited release in 2015 during the Star Wars Celebration fan convention.
[1][7][21][22] The next official version of the game, this one using the name Sabacc, was distributed around the same time at Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge themed area.
[3] The version of the game as described in the novel A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, described as a "classic" in-universe, has both players dealt two cards, which they can keep, trade or reshuffle using a digital randomizer.
[24] The Corellian Spike variant also features a smaller deck of cards, with values of −10 to 10, and the target number is no longer 23 but 0.