Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor – With educational data
Patent
1997-02-19
1999-07-27
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
With educational data
273308, 434130, A63F 100
Patent
active
059277190
ABSTRACT:
This invention comprises a method for teaching/learning about the general location of major political units of contemporary society using a series of sets of decks of geography playing cards; each set of decks comprises a world regions deck, a suited country card deck, an unsuited country card deck and a blotswanna card deck. The world regions card deck represents contemporary settled earth and comprises a plurality of continental landmass area suits and a plurality of region cards. Each suited country card deck represents one continental area and comprises a plurality of region suits and a plurality of political unit or country cards. Each unsuited country card deck also represents one continental area and comprises a plurality of political unit or country cards. World regions and country card decks provide three different, and increasing, levels of card play difficulty. A blotswanna card deck comprises a plurality of cards, as well, and is used to structure the card play of regions and country card decks. Blotswanna cards structure use by mandating player compilation of a particular combination of cards from a deck and assigning varying point values to mandate achievement, from hand-to-hand of play. The blotswanna card deck, thus, structures learning and heightens excitement. Other novel features include improved directional-suit configurations and improved directional-suit naming conventions. Use of place-filler cards in country card decks enables development of locational suited decks wherein the suits of a deck have identical numbers of suit cards. Identical numbers of suit cards facilitate the play of adaptations of a number of popular card games. A card game developed for use with the invention and a version of the invention for use by young children are also included.
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