Patent ID: 8590895

Claim:
A card game machine for playing a card game with a plurality of cards, each of which has a distinctive surface and a non-distinctive surface, the card game machine comprising: a card slide housing having a plurality of slides, each of which is inclined with respect to the vertical direction such that cards can slide down each of the slides, and which are separated from each other; a card stop unit which is coupled to the card slide housing to stop cards from sliding down each of the slides at a predetermined position; a card distribute unit configured to distribute cards onto each of the slides; a card drive unit configured to cause the cards that have been stopped by the card stop unit to start sliding again down the slides on which they have stopped; and a card receive unit which is arranged below the card stop unit and which has a plurality of card receiving parts corresponding to the respective slides to receive the plurality of cards which have slid down the respective slides, wherein the plurality of card receiving parts are movable such that distinctive portions of the distinctive surfaces of the cards received in each receiving part are spaced apart from each other in a direction.