Patent ID: 7322888

Claim:
A method of distributing game tokens to players in a game wherein the game comprises the distribution of game tokens to n players, P 1 , P 2 , . . . P n , where n is greater than 1, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining from each player P i a first unit A i , wherein each A i is chosen from a finite set of discrete candidate first units; (b) obtaining from each player P i a second unit B i , wherein each B i is chosen from a finite set of discrete candidate second units; (c) deriving a third unit C using a predetermined algorithm where C=f(B 1 , . . . ,B n ); (d) assigning a previously unassigned game token G i to each player from a predetermined algorithm where G i =f(A i , C); and (e) repeating steps (a)-(d) until a predetermined number of game tokens cards are distributed to each player.