2QUESTION 2 OF 3
Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
4,500,000
hands
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Vegas has maybe 50 real casinos, each with about 30 blackjack tables. How many hands does one table deal in a day? Say 5 players each getting a hand a minute, busy about half the day.
- Casinos in Vegas
- ≈ 50
- Blackjack tables in each
- × 30
- Hands per table per day
- × 3,600
- 1,500 × 3,600
- ≈ 5,400,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Blackjack tables in Las Vegas casinos, 2025 average (Nevada Gaming Control Board)
- ≈ 1,500
- Hands dealt per hour at a table of 3 to 5 players (Kilby, Casino Operations Management)
- × 330
- Hours a table is actually dealing each day, the middle of a 6 to 12 hour range (our assumption)
- × 9
- 1,500 × 330 × 9
- ≈ 4,500,000
Reference cited by Fermi: Nevada Gaming Control Board Monthly Revenue Report, December 2025 (Twenty One tables, twelve-month average) and Jim Kilby, Casino Operations Management (hands per hour)
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