Patent ID: 7575238

Claim:
A method of playing a senate card game between a plurality of players, the method comprising the steps of: separating senate cards into a first and second stack, wherein the separation is dependent upon political parties and the first stack has a greater number of cards than the second stack, the first stack forming a majority stack and the second stack forming a minority stack; providing a predetermined time of game play placing each stack of senate cards face down on a playing surface; flipping a card from a top of each stack showing a Senator of each card flipped; winning a senate card of lesser value, wherein the value of each card is determined by value factors including at least one of office, class, year, electoral count and combinations thereof; determining a winner, wherein the winner is the player with the most senate cards at the expiration of the predetermined time of game play; determining a bill submitting party after expiration of a predetermined time of game play by a player having ⅔ of the senate cards on the player's side; submitting a bill by the submitting party for approval; and performing an action by a President card of passing the bill or vetoing the bill, wherein the bill passes if the submitting party is the same party as the President card and the bill is vetoed if the submitting party is a different party as the President card.