Sabacc is a primarily fictional gambling card game, with similarities to blackjack and poker (adding and subtracting numbered cards), originating from the Star Wars space opera franchise, where it is a common pastime of such characters as Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. The game is best known as the high-stake game played by Solo that won him his starship, the Millennium Falcon, from Lando. It has been described as "the most popular card game in the Star Wars galaxy." 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. The first sabacc ruleset was published in 1989; however, several other rule-sets have been published since 2015. While the game is commonly described as a card game, some variants are known to use dice. History In films and books The game is best known as the high-stake game played by Han Solo in which he won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian, and has been described as "one of the most well-known elements of the Star Wars underworld". However, the first mention of the game is in the second draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), where Han says his friend Lando Calrissian won the gas mine in a "sabacca game". It was next mentioned in the 1983 novel Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu by L. Neil Smith and over the years has made appearances in a number of other Star Wars media, such as the "Idiot's Array", a 2015 episode of the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels; most notably it made an appearance in the Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 movie, which finally featured the scene of Han Solo winning the Millennium Falcon from Lando during a game of sabacc. 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. In games The game's first official (licensed) ruleset and physical release was in the Crisis on Cloud City (1989) supplement for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games. A reviewer for the Games International magazine wrote that it is "a sort of Blackjack variant, the game