Patent ID: 7503564
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. In a method of playing a rummy-type game by a plurality of individual players with a deck of cards comprising multiple consecutively-numbered suits and at least two discrete cards, each said card of said deck having opposing sides with a distinct playing face on one side of each and all of said cards having a common appearance back on the sides opposite said faces, said method comprising the steps of: a) presenting all of said cards in a position of access to all of said players with their back sides facing upwardly; b) providing a playing surface for melding of three-card sets of identically-numbered cards of different suits and three-card runs of sequentially-numbered and same suit cards within easy accessibility to all of said players; c) establishing a deal for a hand of play whereby each player is allocated a like predetermined number of cards the faces of which only a receiving player can view; d) playing individually in succession by melding of cards or drawing cards from the deck if unable to meld at a turn until one player has completely depleted his supply of cards by melding onto said playing surface from those originally dealt and from any received from the deck during play of the hand; e) melding runs and sets of at least three cards each; f) designating said at least two discrete cards as multi-function cards having characteristics enabling optional use during play either as wild cards substitutable for numbered cards for melding purposes or as penalty cards for imposing a penalty on an opposing player by placing the penalty card before him; and, g) selectively utilizing said multi-function cards by a player during his playing turn in one of said characteristics during play of the game.