Patent ID: 8740619

Claim:
A computer assisted method for playing a card game via a processing device, the method comprising: dealing, via the processing device, a plurality of geopolitical entity cards from a set of geopolitical entity cards to each of a group of at least two players, such that each player has a player hand of geopolitical cards; receiving via the processing device, from each player, identification of at least two matching cards from each player hand, wherein receiving identification of at the at least two matching cards includes receiving at least one selected from a group consisting of: each of the at least two matching cards having a common geographic border, and each of the at least two matching cards including at least three matching cards, wherein each of the at least three matching cards having a common border with at least one of the other of the at least three matching cards; the processing device determining which of the group of at least two players first identifies the at least two matching cards from the player hand; and awarding a score to the first of the at least two players that first identifies the at least two matching cards from the player hand.