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US 2007/0182100 A1Published application
Melding Card Games With Solving Component
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorBrian Yu
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to card games, and more particularly to card games in which players play to form certain card combinations or “melds,” in order to collect information that in turn allows the players to solve a puzzle.
Claims29
A kit for playing a card game, the card game involving the determination of a solution, the kit comprising:
- a set of playing cards, each of the playing cards including a value indicia thereon;
- a set of information cards, each of the information cards including information indicia thereon;
- a set of requirement cards, each of the requirement cards including requirement indicia thereon, each of the information cards being configured to be associated with a requirement card so that one of the requirement indicia is identified;
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- a solution card, the solution card including a plurality of potential solutions to the card game, the information indicia being related to each of the potential solutions.
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A method of playing a melding card game, the method comprising:
- separating information cards into categories of information cards, each information card including information indicia, each category of information cards including cards with related information indicia;
- selecting an information card from each category of information cards;
- for each selected information card, selecting a requirement card and a particular requirement indicia thereon and associating the selected information card with the selected requirement card so that the particular requirement indicia is identified;
- dealing a predetermined number of playing cards to each player;
- beginning a round wherein each player in turn is allowed to:
- choose to draw a card from either a remaining deck of playing cards or a discard pile of playing cards,
- form a meld of playing cards,
- select an information card and its associated requirement card,
- determine whether a value of the meld of playing cards meets or exceeds the requirement indicia associated with the information card selected by the player, and
- view the information card selected by the player if the value of the meld of playing cards meets or exceeds the identified requirement indicia.
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A deck of cards, comprising:
- playing cards, each playing card including card value indicia and suit indicia, the playing cards being separable into a plurality of suits;
- requirement cards, each of the requirement cards including requirement indicia thereon;
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- information cards, each of the information cards including information indicia thereon, each of the information cards being configured to be associated with a particular requirement indicia on a requirement card, wherein the playing cards are combinable to form one or more melds of playing cards using the suit indicia, a value of a meld being determined by a sum of the card value indicia of the playing cards in a meld, and a selected information card being viewable by a player if the sum of the card value indicia of one or more melds meets or exceeds the particular requirement indicia associated with the selected information card.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.