Patent ID: 7118113

Claim:
A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of: a) dealing a first playing card from a deck of playing cards to a player; b) placing said playing card in one of nine locations, said one of said nine locations being determined by a three by three array; c) dealing another playing card to said player; d) placing said another playing card into one of the remaining locations of said nine locations, wherein the objective of placing the playing card into one of said nine locations is to create a sum of three cards in a row, a column, or a diagonal that add up to 21; e) repeating steps c) and d) until each of said nine locations contains a playing card; f) adding up all of the playing cards in a particular row; g) adding up all of the playing cards in a particular column; h) adding up all of the playing cards in a particular diagonal; and i) determining how many 21s the player has obtained.