Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-11-14
2001-10-16
Chapman, Jeanette (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
C273S306000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06302398
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to card games that use wild cards, particularly card games of the type that are often played as casino games. The invention also is directed to a deck of cards used to play the game of the present invention.
2. Description of Related Art
The game of Twenty-One or Blackjack is a popular and exciting game of chance that is widely played in casinos around the world. One attraction of this game is that it is played rapidly with a limited number of cards. A player's hand can include as few as two cards. This leads to rapid and exciting play.
Another attraction to this game is that aces are multi-valued, i.e., they can be worth either one or eleven. This adds another element of excitement to the game.
Despite the advantageous features of Twenty-One, however, there is still a desire for faster action and greater excitement in card games. The present invention provides such faster action by providing a game that can have hands with as few as a single card and by providing a special deck of cards with wild cards that have an even greater range of possible values, including any value from one to eleven.
Bearing in mind the problems and deficiencies of the prior art, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a fast paced game using relatively few cards for each player's hand.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of playing a game having one or more wild cards that have a wider range of possible values than other wild card games.
A further object of the invention is to provide a game that will be familiar to and readily accepted by players who understand the rules of Blackjack or Twenty-One.
Still other objects and advantages of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part be apparent from the specification.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above and other objects, which will be apparent to those skilled in art, are achieved in the present invention which is directed to a method of playing a card game and a deck of cards for playing the card game.
The object of the card game is to obtain a hand of cards having a value as close as possible to, or equal to, eleven. One or more players play directly against a dealer. The method of playing the card game includes providing a deck of cards having only number cards and one or more wild cards. Each number card has a value within the range of one through eight. Each wild card has any advantageous value from one to eleven. Because the most advantageous value is the value that makes the total value of a hand equal to eleven, wild cards are used to bring the total value of a player or dealer's hand to eleven.
The dealer deals a hand beginning with a first face-up card from the deck to the first player to his left. If there are additional players, the dealer also deals a face-up card to each additional player. A first face-down card is then dealt in front of the dealer. All subsequent cards are dealt face-up.
If a player has received one of the wild cards as the player's first card, the player wins the hand against the dealer, unless the dealer has also received one of the wild cards as the dealer's first card, in which case neither the player nor the dealer wins the hand and the hand is a tie. Conversely, the dealer wins the hand against the player if the dealer has received one of the wild cards as the dealer's first card, unless the player has also received one of the wild cards as the player's first card.
After the first cards are dealt, each player has the options of immediately resting, or requesting a single additional card and resting, or requesting multiple additional cards, one at a time, before resting. Additional cards are all dealt face-up. A player loses the hand to the dealer if an additional card requested by the player causes the total value of the cards dealt to the player to exceed eleven.
After each player has finished, the dealer turns the dealer's first card face-up. If the value of the dealer's first card is six or less, the dealer must take an additional card, dealt face-up. The dealer must continue to take face-up cards until the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer is seven or more.
If the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer exceeds eleven, the dealer loses to each remaining player who has a hand of eleven or less. The dealer wins the hand against a player if the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer exceeds the total value of the cards dealt to the player, provided, of course, the total value of the dealer's hand does not exceed eleven.
The player wins the hand against the dealer if the total value of the cards dealt to the player exceeds the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer, provided, of course, the total value of the player's hand has not previously exceeded eleven.
The steps of the method include:
providing a deck of cards having only number cards and one or more wild cards, each number card having a value solely within the range of one through eight and each wild card having any advantageous value from one to eleven;
a dealer dealing a hand beginning with a first face-up card from the deck to a player and a first face-down card to the dealer;
determining if the player has won the hand against the dealer after the first cards are dealt, the player winning the hand if the player has received one of the wild cards as the player's first card, unless the dealer has also received one of the wild cards as the dealer's first card, in which case neither the player nor the dealer wins the hand;
determining if the dealer has won the hand against the player after the first cards are dealt, the dealer winning the hand after the first cards are dealt if the dealer has received one of the wild cards as the dealer's first card, unless the player has also received one of the wild cards as the player's first card, in which case neither the player nor the dealer wins the hand;
after the first cards are dealt, the player selecting from the steps of:
immediately resting, or
requesting a single additional card and resting, or
requesting multiple additional cards, one at a time, before resting, the additional cards being dealt face-up;
determining if the player has lost the hand to the dealer after each additional card is dealt to the player, the player losing the hand after an additional card is dealt if the additional card requested by the player has caused the total value of the cards dealt to the player to exceed eleven;
turning the dealer's first card face-up after the player has rested with cards totaling eleven or less;
dealing an additional face-up card to the dealer if the value of the dealer's first card is six or less and continuing to deal additional cards to the dealer until the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer is seven or more,
determining if the dealer has lost the hand to the player after each additional card is dealt to the dealer by determining if the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer has exceeded eleven;
determining if the dealer has won the hand against the player by determining if the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer has exceeded the total value of the cards dealt to the player; and
determining if the player has won the hand against the dealer by determining if the total value of the cards dealt to the player has exceeded the total value of the cards dealt to the dealer.
Where there are multiple players, the step of dealing a hand includes the dealer dealing first face-up cards from the deck to additional players after dealing the first face-up card to the first player and before dealing the first face-down card to the dealer;
the step of determining if the player has won the hand against the dealer after the first cards are dealt includes a step of determining if each additional player has won the hand against the dealer after all the first cards are dealt, each additional player winning the hand if the additional player has received one
Chapman Jeanette
DeLio & Peterson LLC
Legesse Nini F.
LTB, LLC
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