Patent ID: 8342528

Claim:
A system for playing a card game, the system comprising: a processor configured to control a display to display a layout for indicating at least one proposition related to the value of a single card to be selected from a representation of a deck of thirty-six cards comprising: (a) one card showing a first indicium representing a first value, (b) two cards each showing a second indicium representing a second value, (c) three cards each showing a third indicium representing a third value, (d) four cards each showing a fourth indicium representing a fourth value, (e) five cards each showing a fifth indicium representing a fifth value, (f) six cards each showing a sixth indicium representing a sixth value, (g) five cards each showing a seventh indicium representing a seventh value, (h) four cards each showing an eighth indicium representing an eighth value, (i) three cards each showing a ninth indicium representing a ninth value, (j) two cards each showing a tenth indicium representing a tenth value, and (k) one card showing an eleventh indicium representing an eleventh value; a user interface configured to accept, with reference to the layout, at least one proposition related to the value of a single card to be selected from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards; the processor being further configured to randomly select a single card from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards, and to determine whether any of the at least one proposition accepted by the user interface relates to the value of the randomly selected single card from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards, wherein a proposition is at least one of: that a value indicated by the accepted proposition is the same as the value of the single card selected from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards; that the single card selected from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards has a value that is one of either the first or eleventh value, either the second or tenth value, either the third or ninth value, either the fourth or eighth value, and either the fifth or seventh value, as indicated by the accepted proposition; and that the value of the single card selected from the representation of the deck of thirty-six cards is one of a value ranking lower than the sixth value or ranking higher than the sixth value, as indicated by the proposition, wherein the first to fifth values are assigned a lower rank than the sixth value and the seventh to eleventh values are assigned a higher rank than the sixth value.