Patent ID: 6302398
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of: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, orrequesting a single additional card and resting, orrequesting 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; anddetermining 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.