US 2014/0274260 A1 · POKER BASED PUZZLE AND METHOD OF CREATION

Abstract

A method of establishing one or more puzzles from candidate deals of a card game such as poker, for supporting an exercise in guessing an opponent's concealed card holdings. The method may use random dealing, archived actual deals, and other manufactured or sourced material to source an inventory of candidate deals. To qualify a deal from the inventory of candidate deals, the method may quantify one or more parameters of a candidate card deal. Quantified parameters may be weighted or otherwise mathematically treated, then evaluated to arrive at a determination of suitability for establishing a puzzle based on the candidate deal. The puzzles may be used as the basis of an exercise or game wherein the participant must guess the nature of concealed card holdings. Where the invention is regarded as the resultant game, guesses may be mathematically quantified to arrive at a score.

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Dependent claims

A method of creating a puzzle game that displays situations of known preestablished card games, in which the goal of a player of the puzzle game is to guess concealed card holdings of players of the original preestablished card game at a predetermined point of the preestablished card game, comprising the steps of:

qualifying a preestablished card game so that the player of the puzzle game has sufficient information by which to draw repeatable conclusions as to the nature of the concealed card holdings;
reproducing all or a portion of the preestablished card game, wherein a plurality of game positions are held by an equal number of game players;
concealing from the player of the puzzle game known cards of a player of the preestablished card game;
displaying information pertaining to the preestablished card game;
and
displaying information pertaining to the puzzle game;

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An apparatus for playing a puzzle game, comprising:

a computing device configured to have a memory function for storing information relating to attributes of a preestablished card game, wherein the goal of the puzzle game is to have a player of the puzzle game guess the nature of at least one concealed card holding from the preestablished card game;
a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays all or a portion of the preestablished card game to the player of the puzzle game, wherein a plurality of card game positions are held by number of card game players;
a computing device configured to conceal cards held by players of the preestablished card game;
a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays a question to be answered by the player playing the puzzle game;
a computing device configured to compute values for aspects of the preestablished card game and utilize the computed values to generate and control the puzzle game;
a computing device configured to receive help requests from the player of the puzzle game;
a computing device configured to generate output to the display device for the player of the puzzle game by revealing additional information per instructive game rules or as requested by the player of the puzzle game;
a computing device configured to receive inputs from the player of the puzzle game, wherein the input is a guess as to the nature of at least one concealed card holding of at least one player of the preestablished card game;
a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays a solution of the puzzle game;
a computing device configured to calculate a score for the player of the puzzle game based on attributes related to how close the guess is to the actual concealed card holding from the preestablished card game;
and,
a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays the calculated score to the player of the puzzle game.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Poker based puzzle and method of creation

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Poker based puzzle and method of creation

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