Patent ID: 6840856
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. Method for conducting a game for one or more players, comprising (A) providing plural sets of contest elements for such game in which the contest elements include: (B) providing a game controller to distribute contest elements to each player in the game; (C) establishing a table of values for winning combinations of contest elements, (D) distributing, by means of such controller, a selected number of contest elements to each player, with each player receiving the same number of contest elements; (E) enabling each player to evaluate the combination of such received contest elements based on such table of values to elect whether or not to reject one or more contest elements; (F) permitting each player to selectively reject, for return to such controller, from zero to all contest elements obtained in Step (D); (G) distributing additional contest elements, by such controller, to each player corresponding to the number of contest elements, if any, rejected in Step (F); and (H) evaluating the combination of contest elements held by each player against such table of values.