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US 9,878,231 B2Granted
Military-based gaming system
OwnerHarold L. Luntinventor
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Abstract
A deck of cards includes eighty four playing cards. Each playing card has a front surface and a back surface. The front surface of all of the playing cards has the same design. The eighty four playing cards include four sets of twenty one playing cards. Each of the four sets corresponds to a branch of military service and each playing card within each of the four sets of twenty one playing cards corresponding to a rank within a respective branch of the military service.
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A method of playing a game, the method comprising:
- providing a deck of playing cards, each playing card in the deck of playing cards having a front surface and a back surface, the front surface of all of the playing cards in the deck of playing cards having a same design, and the back surface of each of the playing cards having indicia indicating a branch of military service and a rank within the military service;
- whereas each of the playing card in the deck of playing cards is unique with respect to the other playing cards in the deck of playing cards;
- dealing out a number of the playing cards;
- and
- determining if a first playing card has a higher value than a second playing card determined by comparing the indicia indicating the rank within the military service on the back surface of the first playing card to the indicia indicating the rank within the military service on the back surface of the second playing card, wherein the rank is one of E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, WO, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, O9, O10, and O11/5-star general, in order of value lowest to highest.
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A method of playing a game, the method comprising:
- providing a deck of playing cards, each playing card in the deck of playing cards having a front surface and a back surface, the front surface of all of the playing cards in the deck of playing cards having a same design, and the back surface of each of the playing cards having indicia indicating a branch of military service and a rank within the military service;
- whereas the indicia of each of the playing cards in the deck of playing cards is unique with respect to the other playing cards in the deck of playing cards, the rank within the military service selected from the group consisting of E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, WO, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, O9, O10, and O11/5-star general;
- dealing out a number of the playing cards;
- and
- determining if a first playing card has a higher value than a second playing card determined by comparing the indicia indicating the rank within the military service on the back surface of the first playing card to the indicia indicating the rank within the military service on the back surface of the second playing card, wherein the rank is one of E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, WO, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, O9, O10, and O11/5-star general, in order of value lowest to highest.
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A method of playing a game, the method comprising:
- providing a deck of eighty four playing cards, each playing card in the deck of playing cards having a front surface and a back surface, the front surface of all of the playing cards in the deck of playing cards having a same design, and the back surface of each of the playing cards having indicia indicating a branch of military service and a rank within the military service;
- whereas the indicia of each of the playing cards in the deck of playing cards is unique with respect to the other playing cards in the deck of playing cards, the rank within the military service selected from the group consisting of E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, WO, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, O9, O10, and O11/5-star general;
- dealing out all of the playing cards with the front surface up, distributing the playing cards to all players playing the game into a stack for each player;
- each player exposing a top playing card of the stack associated with that player;
- determining which of the exposed playing cards has the highest value by comparing the indicia indicating the rank within the military service on the back surface of the exposed playing cards, wherein the rank is one of E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, WO, O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, O9, O10, and O11/5-star general, in order of value lowest to highest;
- the player having the highest value playing card taking the exposed playing cards from the remaining players.
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