Blackjack Trainer Alexa Skill

This is an Alexa skill for teaching Basic Strategy to the card game Blackjack. Alexa will deal a sample hand and quiz the user on the correct move based on Basic Strategy odds.

Setup

Blackjack Trainer uses a serverless architecture via an AWS Lambda function. To deploy on your own Lambda for testing, follow these steps:

1. Clone and download this repository.
2. Install dependencies using yarn.
3. Run npm run setup to generate the Lambda deployment files.
4. Fill out the necessary fields in .env.
5. Add your Alexa Skill app id to deploy.env as APP_ID=<appId>.
6. Run npm run deploy to deploy skill to your Lambda function.
7. Add the contents of intent-schema.json and sample-utterances.txt to your Alexa skill.
8. Install and test.

Testing

You can test locally by editing event.json with a specific Lambda Request. You may find it useful to copy and paste from the Testing page of the Alexa skill.

Acknowledgements

Blackjack Trainer makes use of the following projects:

• engine-blackjack
• blackjack-strategy
• node-lambda-babel-template
• Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js

Thanks to the many developers who contributed to these and other open source projects!