# US 2025/0095451 A1 · Method and apparatus of playing a game using the alphabetic letters

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- Number: US 2025/0095451 A1
- Document ID: US20250095451A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/968,183
- Filed: 2024-12-04
- Published: 2025-03-20
- Earliest claimed: 2017-12-01
- Inventors: Raphael Mourad
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250095451A1

## CPC

- G07F 17/3288: {Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking}
- G07F 17/3211: {Display means}
- G07F 17/3225: {Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users}
- G07F 17/3293: {Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack}
- G07F 17/3262: {Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played}
- G07F 17/34: depending on the stopping of moving members {in a mechanical slot machine}, e.g. "fruit" machines
- G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00})

## Abstract

A gaming apparatus includes a data processor implementing a random number generator. The apparatus also includes a database storing libraries with a plurality of sets. Each set includes C letters of an alphabet. The apparatus further includes a user-operable keypad to input a user's choice of a unique combination or permutation of letters and a user-operable trigger causing the data processor to randomly select and display in sequence one or more of the letters to form an outcome. All the letters have an equal chance to be selected and displayed.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A deck of playing cards, comprising:
a single or a plurality of sub-decks of cards, each sub-deck including C cards, each card having a face side that bears a different letter of a language alphabet.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The deck of claim 1, wherein C is 26 and each card having a face side that bears a different letter of the English alphabet, including 21 consonants and 5 vowels.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The deck of claim 1, further comprising one or more wild cards.

### Claim 4

A gaming apparatus, comprising:
a data processor implementing a random number generator;
a database storing libraries with a plurality of sets, each set comprising of C letters of an alphabet;
a user-operable keypad to input a user's choice of a unique combination or permutation of letters;
a user-operable trigger causing the data processor to randomly select and display in sequence one or more of the letters to form an outcome; and
wherein all the letters have an equal chance to be selected and displayed.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The apparatus of claim 4, wherein C is 26 representing the English alphabet including 21 consonants and 5 vowels.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising one or more wild letters.