Patent ID: 7188838

Claim:
A method of playing a card game starting with at least one deck of cards, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing n number of cards from a deck of cards to each of a plurality of players, wherein at least one of the n number of cards is provided face down to each player, further wherein once each player has been provided n number of cards from the deck of cards the remaining cards in the deck of cards are placed aside; (b) requiring each player to select and remove x number of cards from their n number of cards wherein each player ends up with a preferred card hand of x number of selected cards and n−x number of unselected cards; (c) requiring each player to discard their unselected cards, wherein the unselected cards of each player are in the face down position until all players have discarded their unselected cards to provide a pile of unselected cards; (d) turning each card in the pile of unselected cards face up; (e) allowing each player in turn to swap one card from their card hand for one card from the pile of face up unselected cards, or to pass, wherein each swapped card remains face down and unused or is turned face up and then treated as an unselected card available for swapping, wherein if a player passes the next player is allowed to pass or swap a card; (f) continuing with step (e) until each player has decided to stay with their card hand; (g) requiring each player to reveal their card hand; and (h) determining the winning card hand by a predetermined set of rules.