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