Patent ID: 8348738
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for playing a card game on a computing device having a display screen ( 90 ), the computing device being programmed to carry out the card game using physical card representations stored in a memory for a first deck of playing cards, the program enabling an actual player to play the card game against at least one virtual player controlled by the computing device, a player remaining in the card game being defined as an active player, the method comprising: a) randomly selecting cards, by the computing device, from the first deck of playing cards to form a second deck of playing cards that contains fewer cards than the first deck of playing cards; b) displaying to the actual player on the display screen ( c) displaying to the actual player on the display screen ( d) selecting by each active player a desired card of a particular rank and suit from the second deck of cards excluding the randomly dealt cards in step (b), where an active, actual player uses a computer interface to make his/her card selection; e) for each active player, determining if the card selected by that player is the same as a card selected by another player in a current round or the same as a card dealt to another player on a previous round; f) if a first player chose the same card as another player, as determined in step (e), dealing the first player a null card that has no value in forming a card hand, wherein, if the first player is the actual player ( wherein, if the first player is a virtual player ( g) if the first player did not choose the same card as another player, as determined in step (d), dealing the first player the card that the first player selected, wherein, the display screen ( h) repeating steps d-g if there is more than one active player after a round of play, until the same predetermined number of cards have been dealt to each active player; and i) controlling the display screen (