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US 8,523,183 B2Granted
Card game with counting
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorsLee Amaitis, Kevin Burman, Manu Gambhir
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Abstract
Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.
Claims52
A method comprising
- determining, by a computing device, at least one card used from playing cards;
- determining, by the computing device, a second value of a statistic based on the at least one card, in which the statistic represents a house edge associated with play of a game;
- determining, by the computing device, that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitating, by the computing device, an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game.
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A method comprising
- determining, by a computing device, a first value of a statistic describing playing cards;
- determining, by a computing device, at least one card used from the playing cards;
- determining, by the computing device, a second value of the statistic based on the at least one card, in which determining the second value of the statistic includes incrementing the first value if the at least one card has a point value of two through six, and decrementing the first value if the at least one card has a point value of ten;
- determining, by the computing device, that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitating, by the computing device, an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game.
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A method comprising
- determining, by a computing device, at least one card used from playing cards;
- determining, by the computing device, a second value of a statistic based on the at least one card;
- determining, by the computing device, that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitating, by the computing device, an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game;
- and
- determining that a player does not commit to playing the at least one game with a particular strategy, and in which facilitating the adjustment includes facilitating the adjustment in response to determining that the player does not commit.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon, instruction that are configured to cause a computing device to:
- determine at least one card used from playing cards;
- determine a second value of a statistic based on the at least one card, in which the statistic represents a house edge associated with play of a game;
- determine that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitate an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon, instruction that are configured to cause a computing device to:
- determine a first value of a statistic describing playing cards;
- determine at least one card used from the playing cards;
- determine a second value of the statistic based on the at least one card, in which determining the second value of the statistic includes incrementing the first value if the at least one card has a point value of two through six, and decrementing the first value if the at least one card has a point value of ten;
- determine that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitate an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon, instruction that are configured to cause a computing device to:
- determine at least one card used from playing cards;
- determine a second value of a statistic based on the at least one card;
- determine that the second value is at least one of greater than a first threshold value and less than a second threshold value;
- in response to determining that the second value is at least one of greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, facilitate an adjustment to at least one rule for at least one game;
- and
- determine that a player does not commit to playing the at least one game with a particular strategy, and in which facilitating the adjustment includes facilitate the adjustment in response to determining that the player does not commit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.