Patent ID: 7600758
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of providing eighty-four cards wherein said eighty-four cards include six groups of twelve successively numbered value cards, six BONUS cards, and six BUST cards, wherein each of said eighty-four cards has a face side on which is printed all information pertaining to said card, and each card having a back with said backs of all of said plurality of cards being identical, arranging said cards in a shuffled stack with all said face sides directed downwardly, providing a plurality of players, distributing face side down four of said eighty-four cards to each of said plurality of players, said face side down cards not visible to all players, distributing to each of said plurality of players four of said remaining cards wherein face sides of said second four distributed cards are visible only to said player receiving said four second cards and are retained by said payer as a hand, turning face side up a first top card of said eighty-four cards remaining in said stack and spacing said first top card form said stack to form a discard pile, a first of said players commencing a play by drawing a top one of said cards from one of said remaining stack and said discard pile and placing said drawn card in said first players said hand, said first of said players displaying to other players a face side of a first card from his hand wherein said first card is a displayed card, said first player selecting a card from his face down cards for play wherein said face down card is a selected card, said first player declaring whether his said displayed card bears a number that is higher than or lower than a number born by his said selected card, displaying to all players said face side of said first player's selected card, awarding points to said first of said players where said first of said players has declared said displayed card to be higher than his said selected card and said displayed card bears a number that is higher than said selected card, awarding points to said first of said players where said first of said players has declared said displayed card to be lower than said selected card and a number of said displayed cards is lower than a number of said selected card, said first player discarding onto said discard pile one of his cards remaining in his said hand thereby ending said play commenced by said first player, each successive player thereafter commencing a play for such successive player by drawing a top one of said cards from one of said remaining stack of said cards and said discard pile and placing said drawn card into his said hand, said successive player displaying to other players a face side of one card held in his said hand and offering said displayed card for play, said successive player selecting one of his face down cards as a selected card for play against his said displayed card, said successive player declaring whether his said displayed card bears a number that is higher than or lower than a number born by his said selected card, displaying to all players said face side of said successive players said selected card, awarding points to said successive player where said successive player has declared his said displayed card to be higher than his said selected card and said displayed card bears a number that is higher than a number born by his said selected card, awarding points to said successive player where said successive player has declared his said displayed card to be lower than his said selected card and said displayed card bears a number that is lower than a number born by his said selected card, said successive player discarding onto said discard pile one of his cards remaining in his said hand, thereby ending said play commenced by said successive player, awarding additional points to a player who, during the course of his play, displays a BONUS card for play against a selected card selected from his face down cards, canceling all points awarded to a second player during a given previous play when a third player, during said third player's play, displays a BUST card and directs that said BUST card is applied to said given previous play, and declaring one of said players to be a winner of said game where said winning player has accumulated points that are one of more points than any other player, and more than a predetermined number of points.