Patent ID: 6863275

Claim:
A method for playing a card game, wherein the object of the game is for one of a plurality of players to discard all cards he possesses before the others of the plurality, the method comprising: providing a deck of cards having a plurality of playing cards, each of the plurality of playing cards having at least one visual indicia displayed on it, wherein the playing cards collectively have a plurality of visual indicia displayed on them; dealing at least one of the plurality of deck of cards to each of the plurality of players; selecting at least one of the plurality of visual indicia for matching the dealt cards; discarding one of the dealt cards by each of the plurality of players in a predetermined manner in response to the selecting of the at least one of the plurality of visual indicia, the discarded cards facing up in order to reveal its corresponding visual indicia; striking one of the discarded cards by each of the plurality of players when the revealed visual indicia of the discarded card matches the selected at least one visual indicia; and collecting all of the discarded cards by the last one of the plurality of players to strike the discarded card matching the selected at least one visual indicia.