US 6,598,880 B2Granted

Card game deck and methods of play

OwnerDaniel F. Addabboinventor

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Abstract

The invention includes specialized card decks and methods of play that revolve around three groups or groups of cards—numerical cards of 3 suits, 3 types face cards, and high cards. In one embodiment of the invention, the card deck consists of 52 specialized cards, which are divided into groups with the following general hierarchy: (1) 4 high cards that trump all other cards and (2) 12 face cards (3 of each type) that trump all 36 numerical suit cards (12 cards of each suit with a numerical value of 1-3). Within each group, the rank of each card is: (1) all high cards are equal; (2) face card X beats face card Y, face card Y beats face card Z, and face card Z beats face card X; (3) higher numbers beat lower numbers of any suit; and (4) suit P beats suit R, suit R beats suit S, and suit S beats suit P. In addition, each card may have a “draw value,” i.e. a number of cards that must be drawn by a player as a consequence for playing a particular card.

A method of playing a card game with a plurality of players using a deck of cards including (a) a first group of cards, each card of said first group having a indicia of numerical value of one, two, or three and a marking designating one of three different suits p, r, and s, (b) a second group of cards, each card of said second group having a marking designating it as one of three different face cards, x, y, and z, and (c) a third group of cards, each card of said third group having a marking designating it as a high card,

wherein an object of the card game is to become a first player to go out by playing a card on a discard pile, said method of playing comprising the steps of:
(1) Dealing each player five cards face down;
(2) Placing the deck face down in a play area;
(3) Flipping over a top card of the deck, thus forming the discard pile;
(4) Having each player take a turn by placing one card on top of the discard pile and drawing cards according to predetermined game rules, whereby play continues until a player goes out, and wherein players draw cards based on the card they play on the top card of the discard pile according to the following relationship:
(A) beating the top card results in drawing no cards;
(B) identically matching the top card results in drawing either (1) the number on the card (for numerical suit cards), (2) 3 cards in the case of face cards, or (3) 4 cards in the case of high cards;
(C) not beating the top card results in drawing either (1) using Table 1 to determine a draw as follows:
IF T LEAD H 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 CARD E ROCKS IS↓ N→ PAPERS DRAW DRAW SCISSORS DRAW 3 PAPERS 0 1 2 3 3 3 ** 1 2 2 PAPERS ** 0 1 ** 2 2 ** ** 1 1 PAPER ** ** 0 ** ** 1 ** ** ** 3 ROCKS ** 1 2 0 1 2 3 3 3 2 ROCKS ** ** 1 ** 0 1 ** 2 2 1 ROCK ** ** ** ** ** 0 ** ** 1 3 SCISSORS 3 3 3 ** 1 2 0 1 2 2 SCISSORS ** 2 2 ** ** 1 ** 0 1 1 SCISSORS ** ** 1 ** ** ** ** ** 0
wherein, the lead card of Table 1 is the top card, 0 is an indication that said Table 1 does not apply (refer to part (B)), and ** indicates a situation in which a card will not appear as the top card;
(2) x, where x is a numerical value of a card played if played on any face card, or (3) zero for any numerical suit card that is played on a high card or 3 cards for any face card played on a higher ranking face card or on a high card.

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