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OwnerWilliam Weigl, Matthew T. Weigl +1inventors
InventorsWilliam Weigl, Matthew T. Weigl, Margaret R. Weigl
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A rummy-type card game that conventionally includes the making and rearranging of RUNs and SETs on a playing surface is played by utilizing a wild card as a substitute for a numbered card. The numbered card that the wild card represents may later be substituted at least from hand by any player for the wild card and the extracted wild card then used to replace another numbered card already on or added to the playing surface. If a wild card is present in a RUN, that grouping becomes locked (unbreakable) from rearrangement until such time as the wild card has been properly replaced during play. In the preferred version of this game, a wild card can only be used in a RUN, and one of several different techniques can be employed to neutralize the locked aspect of a RUN that contains the wild card. Another novel feature is that a wild card may also be used to extract any numbered card from a RUN, including a locked RUN, and the extracted numbered card may then used to that player's best advantage. A further significant feature is to provide non-suit dual-function cards that can be optionally used either as wild or penalty-imposing cards.
In a method of playing a rummy-type game by a plurality of individual players with discrete elements from a supply comprising multiple suits of consecutively-numbered flat elements and at least two discrete flat wild elements, each said element having opposing sides with a distinct playing face on one side of each and all of said elements having a common back appearance on the sides opposite said faces, said method comprising the steps of:
In a method of playing a rummy-type game that includes providing a supply of playing elements, which supply consists of distinctive multiple suits each of which suits comprises consecutively-numbered elements for use in the making of three-element sets of identically-numbered elements from different suits and three-element runs of sequentially-numbered elements of the same suit, said runs and sets being playable on a playing surface either by rearrangement, adding to or substitution of elements by any of the players in a particular rummy game, and said supply having at least one first wild element substitutable for any given element in any run and, when so substituted, a run containing said at least one wild element normally becoming unbreakable except by replacement of the first wild element in that run by the actual playing element that the first wild element represents, the improvement comprising;
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