Melding Card Game and Method of Play
AssigneePaddy O'Shea's Golf Card Game, LLC
InventorDavid B. Medansky
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Abstract
A melding card game and method of play includes 114 numbered, face, ace, mulligan, joker, and wild cards. A round is played in which nine layout cards are dealt face-down to players and arranged in a grid. Each player turns at least one layout card face up and takes a turn. In the turn, each player draws a drawn card from a discard or draw pile and plays or discards the drawn card. If the player plays the drawn card, the player replaces a layout card with the drawn card. The players play one additional turn after an ender player turns all of their respective cards face up. A score for each player is then determined. A penalty is assigned to the ender player if another player has a lower score. Nine rounds are played. The player with the lowest total score is declared the winner.
Claims20
A method of playing a card game between at least two players comprising the steps of:
- providing a deck of 114 cards, each card having a face and a respective value, the deck consisting of seventy-two numbered cards, twenty-four face cards, eight ace cards, four joker cards, four mulligan cards, and two wild cards;
- playing a round until an ender player has all of their respective cards in a face-up orientation, the round comprising the steps of:
- dealing layout cards from the deck of cards to the players in a face-down orientation;
- creating a draw pile and a discard pile from the cards remaining in the deck of cards;
- each player turning at least one of their layout cards to the face-up orientation;
- each player, in turn, drawing a drawn card from one of the draw and discard piles;
- upon drawing the drawn card from the discard pile, each player replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- upon drawing the drawn card from the draw pile, each player either discarding the drawn card or replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- turning all the layout cards to the face-up orientation;
- and
- ending the round;
- determining a score for each player;
- and
- declaring a winner of the game corresponding to the player with the score which is lowest.
A method of playing a card game between at least two players comprising the steps of:
- providing a deck of 114 cards, each card having a face and a respective value;
- and
- playing a round comprising the steps of:
- dealing layout cards from the deck of cards to the players in a face-down orientation;
- creating a draw pile and a discard pile from the cards remaining in the deck of cards;
- and
- each player turning at least one layout card to a face-up orientation;
- each player taking a turn until an ender player has all of their layout cards in the face-up orientation, each turn comprising the steps of:
- the player drawing a drawn card from one of the draw and discard piles;
- upon drawing a card from the discard pile, the player replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- and
- upon drawing a card from the draw pile, the player either discarding the drawn card or replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- each player, other than the ender player, taking an additional turn;
- each player, other than the ender player, turning their layout cards to the face-up orientation;
- and
- determining a score for each player based on the values of the respective layout cards of the players.
A method of playing a card game between at least two players comprising the steps of:
- providing a deck of 114 cards, each card having a face and a respective value, the deck consisting of seventy-two numbered cards, twenty-four face cards, eight ace cards, four joker cards, four mulligan cards, and two wild cards;
- playing a round comprising the steps of:
- dealing nine layout cards from the deck of cards to each player in a face-down orientation;
- creating a draw pile and a discard pile from the cards remaining in the deck of cards;
- arranging the layout cards of each player into a grid of three rows and three columns;
- each player turning at least one layout card to a face-up orientation;
- each player taking a turn until an ender player has all of their layout cards in the face-up orientation, each turn comprising the steps of:
- the player drawing a drawn card from one of the draw and discard piles;
- upon drawing a card from the discard pile, the player replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- and
- upon drawing a card from the draw pile, the player either discarding the drawn card or replacing one of their layout cards with the drawn card in the face-up orientation;
- each player, other than the ender player, taking an additional turn;
- each player, other than the ender player, turning their layout cards to the face-up orientation;
- melding the layout cards arranged linearly in the grid into melded cards of each player;
- assigning a zero value to each melded card which is a numbered card, face card, or ace card;
- preserving the value of the melded cards which are either joker cards or wild cards;
- summing the values of the layout and melded cards into a score for each player;
- and
- declaring a winner of the game corresponding to the player with the score which is lowest.
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