| Card game -> Monitor Keywords |
|
|
  Card gameRelated Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Card Or Tile Games, Cards Or Tiles ThereforThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070040333. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This application claims priority from British Application Serial No. 0524753.1 filed Dec. 3, 2005. FIELD OF INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to a card game and in particular to a method of playing the card game. SUMMARY OF INVENTION [0003] In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a card game comprises a set of playing cards and a gaming cloth; [0004] wherein the gaming cloth provides; [0005] a plurality of player areas, where cards may be dealt to one or more players; [0006] the game comprising; [0007] dealing hands having two playing cards to each player; and [0008] comparing the hands dealt to each player to determine the outcome of the game by; [0009] determining the level of each hand whereby; a pair of cards of the same rank will beat two cards of different rank; and two cards of consecutive rank will in turn beat two cards of different, non-consecutive rank; [0010] where hands are of the same level, comparing the hands on the basis of the rank of the cards constituting the hand, the hand with the higher ranking cards winning. [0011] According to a preferred embodiment, the gaming cloth further provides; [0012] a dealer area in which cards may be dealt to a dealer; [0013] the or each player area including an area in which the or each player may place an initial bet; [0014] the hand dealt to the or each player being compared with the hand dealt to the dealer to determine the outcome of the initial bet. [0015] In accordance with a further aspect of the invention, a method of playing a card game comprises the steps of: [0016] one or more players placing a bet to participate in the game; [0017] dealing hands having two playing cards to the or each player and to a dealer; and [0018] comparing the hand dealt to the or each player with the hand dealt to the dealer to determine the outcome of the bet by; [0019] determining the level of each hand whereby; a pair of cards of the same rank will beat two cards of different rank; and two cards of consecutive rank will in turn beat two cards of different, non-consecutive rank; [0020] where the hand of a player is of the same level as that of the dealer, comparing the hands on the basis of the rank of the cards constituting the hand, the hand with the higher ranking cards winning. [0021] According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, when both a player and the dealer have a hand with two cards of different, non-consecutive rank; then the high cards of each hand are compared with one another and the low cards of each hand compared with one another, both the high and the low card of one hand having to be of higher rank than corresponding high and low cards of the other hand, in order to win. When one of the high or low cards of one hand is of higher rank than the corresponding high or low card of the other hand, and the other of the high or low cards is of lower rank than the corresponding high or low card of the other hand, then neither hand wins and the bet if forwarded to the next game. [0022] In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention, a hand comprising two cards of consecutive rank of the same suit may be considered to outrank two cards of consecutive rank of different suits, irrespective of the rank of the cards. Continue reading... Full patent description for Card game Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Card game patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. Start now! - Receive info on patent apps like Card game or other areas of interest. ### Previous Patent Application: Game of chance Next Patent Application: Method of playing a card game Industry Class: Amusement devices: games ### FreshPatents.com Support Thank you for viewing the Card game patent info. IP-related news and info Results in 0.52514 seconds Other interesting Feshpatents.com categories: Accenture , Agouron Pharmaceuticals , Amgen , AT&T , Bausch & Lomb , Callaway Golf |
||
