Patent ID: 8500531

Claim:
A method of playing a card game for a single player, using a processor to perform the following steps, comprising: (a) providing a plurality of cards, wherein each card in said plurality has a first side and a second side, wherein said first side of each of said cards includes indicia printed thereon, wherein said indicia on each card is representative of a first value corresponding to each card; (b) placing said cards in at least one row, such that said first side of each card in said at least one row is not viewable by said player, wherein said at least one row comprises a plurality of positions, wherein each card occupies one of said positions in said at least one row, and wherein each position corresponds to at least one second value, wherein said at least one second value for each position is determined by counting from either end of said at least one row; (c) revealing said first side of a selected card from said plurality of cards to determine said first value of said selected card based on said indicia on said selected card; (d) determining a subset of valid cards based on said first value of said selected card and said at least one second value of each of said positions in said at least one row; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) with subsequently selected cards from said subset of valid cards until said subset of valid cards is empty.