Patent ID: 8113932

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: (a) retrieving from a non-transitory computer-readable medium, a parent virtual deck comprising the identity of a plurality of sequentially arranged virtual playing instruments, wherein the sequential arrangement of the playing instruments has been determined by a method comprising: (i) physically randomizing a plurality of physical playing instruments, wherein a random number generator is not utilized to determine the randomness of the physical playing instruments, and wherein each playing instrument comprises at least one identifier; (ii) electronically determining the identity of at least two physical playing instruments in a sequential order before initiation of a game; (iii) capturing a plurality of electronic images of the sequential order of the physical playing instruments; and (iv) electronically storing the identity and sequential order of the at least two physical playing instruments on one or more computer-readable mediums to the parent virtual deck of virtual playing instruments, wherein the parent virtual deck is associated with the plurality of images; and (b) creating at least a child virtual deck of virtual playing instruments from the parent virtual deck of playing instruments created in (a) by applying a predefined rule to resequence the virtual playing instruments within the parent virtual deck, wherein each child virtual deck has a unique identification and is associated with the parent virtual deck.