Patent ID: 8172229

Claim:
A card game system, comprising: a plurality of terminal apparatuses each of which provided with a microprocessor, a card arrangement panel having a flat surface on which a plurality of sheet-like cards are movably placed so that one of the major surfaces of each of the cards faces said flat surface and each of the cards is movable on the flat surface while the card is placed on the flat surface, card data reading device configured to detect unique data of each of the cards when an operator arranges and manipulates a set of cards selected by the operator on the flat surface of the panel on the terminal apparatus, and a game execution device implemented by the microprocessor and which is configured to organize a playing team in a virtual game space based on the data detected from the cards placed on the flat surface of the panel and to execute a game against another playing team organized on another terminal apparatus connected via a network wherein progress of the game is controlled in response to manipulation by the operator with the cards on said panel; a main control unit to which individual game data is transmitted from the plurality of the terminal apparatuses; and a display connected to the main control unit, which displays game images according to development of the game enjoyed by each of the plurality of the terminal apparatuses, wherein said execution device is further configured to set positions of respective game characters of the team in said virtual game space correspondingly to locations of the cards placed on said card arrangement panel and to change an offensive formation of the team in said virtual game space correspondingly to movement of plural cards on said card arrangement panel caused by the operator during playing the game.