Patent ID: 6435500
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: A63F,Y10S

Abstract:
A game simulating apparatus, comprising:a) a game display device; b) a plurality of regions provided on said game display device, at least one of said regions being configured for displaying at least one game representational value; c) a first one of said regions being a player's starting hand region; d) said player's starting hand region including a plurality of initially unrevealed subregions having a playing card representation therein; the subregions being revealed when play begins, the revealed subregions having permanent and observable playing card representations after play begins and the subregions are revealed; e) a second one of said regions being a draw card region; f) said draw card region including a plurality of initially unrevealed draw card subregions having a playing card representation therein, the draw card subregions being revealable when a player makes a selection, the selection resulting in a permanent and observable playing card representation after a player makes a selection; and, g) each one of said playing card representations in said draw card subregions being directly correlated with one of said starting hand subregion playing card representations for simulating replacing the one said starting hand playing card representation with the directly correlated one draw card representation to simulate play in a card game being simulated.