Golf bracket card game
OwnerLuis Dumainventor
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Abstract
A golf tournament bracket card game that may be played in conjunction with an actual golf tournament. The golf bracket card game may include playing cards with values calculated based upon historical tournament data. The golf tournament bracket card game may also include an additional an optional bonus card deck to provide additional playing excitement as well as a forecasting element using a sheet of integrity on which players may predict the outcome of elements of the games of the tournament. The golf tournament bracket card game may be realized in a physical or digital environment.
Claims20
A golf tournament bracket card game comprising:
- a plurality of golf tournament seed card decks corresponding to a plurality of golfers playing in a golf tournament;
- a game mat representing a golf course having eighteen holes with a playing surface including a plurality of designated card positions to receive at least one playing card of the plurality of golf tournament round outcome cards;
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- a sheet of integrity;
- wherein the cards of the plurality of golf tournament round outcome cards include printing on one side of the cards golf scoring outcomes based at least in part upon predetermined data;
- wherein the sheet of integrity includes a golf tournament bracket corresponding to the golf tournament, including a plurality of elimination rounds and a championship round;
- wherein the sheet of integrity includes positions for recording the results of the card game and also positions for predictive results of an actual companion golf tournament recorded by the players before the start of the card game,
- wherein the results of the card game and predictive results are recorded on positions on the sheet of integrity and indicate a winner of the card game.
A golf tournament bracket card game comprising:
- a game mat, wherein the game mat includes a plurality of positions to store a plurality of playing cards corresponding to a single elimination match play format;
- a plurality of card decks, wherein the plurality of the card decks corresponds to a plurality of outcomes in the rounds of the golf tournament and are stored on at least some of the plurality of positions on the game mat;
- a sheet of integrity, wherein the sheet of integrity includes a bracket of the golf tournament, positions to record predictive winners of each round of the golf tournament made at the start of the card game, positions to record card game winners in each round of the golf tournament, positions to record multipliers, positions to total each round of the golf tournament, and the champion.
A method of playing a golf tournament card game comprising:
- completing, by each game player, a sheet of integrity wherein each sheet of integrity includes a predictive winner of each round of the golf tournament as chosen by each game player;
- selecting, by each game player, golfers in the golf tournament from a pool of golfers;
- selecting, by each game player, respective game card decks corresponding to each golfer's tournament position or seed;
- selecting, by each game player in turn, a card from each of their respective game card decks including a golf scoring outcome and placing the card on a game mat according to a predetermined number of selections;
- determining, based on the game card selections, the winner of each match in each round of the golf tournament based on the scoring outcomes;
- recording, by each game player, the results of each match on the sheet of integrity;
- determining, based on the winners of each round and the predictive winners, the overall winner of the card game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.