Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-08
2001-02-06
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182969
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a modified blackjack wagering game.
2. Description of Related Art
Blackjack or twenty-one wagering games are well known in the art. A number of variations have been developed. Some examples of modified blackjack games can be found in U.S. Pat. No. 5,154,429 to LeVasseur, U.S. Pat. No. 5,257,810 to Schorr et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,275,416 to Schorr et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,288,077 to Jones.
However, the games disclosed in these references fail to provide a means for altering the order in which the players' and the dealer's hands are played. In the traditional game of blackjack, each player's hand is played before the dealer's hand is played. It has been found that reversing this order of play has a number of positive effects. By playing the dealer's hand first, the players are given an advantage because they automatically win when the dealer busts and when the dealer does not bust, the players can see exactly what their hand value must be in order to win. This advantage increases the excitement and enjoyment experienced by players which encourages players to play the game more often and for a longer period of time.
However, it is also important not to provide this advantage too often. If the order of play is reversed too often, the average pay out of the game will be too great the operator of the game will not make a profit. What has long been needed is a means for reversing the order of play in blackjack in a way that does not do so too often.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
The present invention comprises a method of playing a blackjack wagering game. The method comprises the steps of dealing two cards to form a player's hand, dealing two cards to form a dealer's hand, and dealing an order card. If the order card is a predefined card or a card in a predefined group of cards, the dealer's hand is played before the player's hand is played.
The present invention also comprises a method of playing blackjack with a side wager. The method comprises the steps of providing at lease one deck of playing cards, the deck having a plurality of different types of cards, assigning a relative ranking to the types of cards in the deck, dealing at least two cards to form a player hand, and dealing an order card. If the rank of the order card is between the ranks of the player's cards, the player is awarded a prize.
The above description sets forth, rather broadly, the more important features of the present invention so that the detailed description of the preferred embodiment that follows may be better understood and contributions of the present invention to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described below and will form the subject matter of claims. In this respect, before explaining at least one preferred embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of the construction and to the arrangement of the components set forth in the following description or as illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4651997 (1987-03-01), Wood
patent: 5364105 (1994-11-01), Jones
patent: 5529309 (1996-06-01), Bartlett
Burns Ian F.
Layno Benjamin H.
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