Patent ID: 8070162
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of game play for a game for a plurality of players, the method comprising: providing an instruction unit and a deck of game cards, wherein each game card has game indicia disposed thereon; distributing a plurality of the game cards to each participant of the game; each player in turn comparing the game indicia of the game cards distributed to the player to the game indicia of a top card of a discard pile of the plurality of cards; discarding at least one of the game cards distributed to the player onto the discard pile in response to the player determining that the game indicia of the player's game cards corresponds to the game indicia of the top card of the discard pile such that the cards may be played on the top card; actuating the instruction unit to output a game instruction in response to the player determining that the game indicia of the player's game cards does not correspond to the game indicia of the top card of the discard pile such that none of the game cards of the player may be played on the top card, wherein the instruction unit stores a plurality of phrases containing different specific numbers of additional game cards to be drawn from the deck of cards by a player, wherein the instruction unit selects one of the plurality of stored phrases in response to the actuation of the instruction unit by one of the players, and wherein the game instruction output by the instruction unit includes the specific number of additional game cards to be drawn from the deck of cards from the selected one of the plurality of stored phrases; and at least one player drawing the specific number of additional game cards specified in the game instruction from the deck of game cards in response to the game instruction output by the instruction unit.