Patent ID: 7014191

Claim:
A method for playing a portable multi-player card game with a plurality of players, the method comprising the steps of: a) engaging at least two players; b) providing a deck of cards, having four sets of cards numbered from one to ten, wherein each set is uniquely marked, and one set has a certain numbered card designated as “chief”; c) dealing a multi-card hand to each player; d) placing four cards, face up, in a center location upon beginning a first hand; e) taking a turn by each player, the turn including: e1) matching, in turn, one or more of the cards in the center location with the feature on one of the players' cards in the players' hand; e2) arithmetically adding, in turn, the numbers of two or more of the cards in the center location to equal the numbered feature on one of the players' cards in the players' hand; and e3) discarding a card from the players' hand to the center location, when the players can not match a card or arithmetically add cards from the center location to one of the cards in the players' hand; f) dealing additional multi-card hands to each player each time all of the players run out of cards in their hand; and g) awarding points to a player: g1) immediately upon acquiring the card designated as “chief”; g2) immediately when the player takes the last card in the center location; g3) having the most cards at the end of each game; g4) having the most cards with a predetermined feature at the end of each game; and g5) having the highest value of his/her best four cards at the end of each game.