Patent ID: 8088006

Claim:
A bridge game playing network using manually manipulable playing cards and comprising a plurality of adjacent but spaced-apart separate card-playing support surfaces in a room of a building, each of said support surfaces being adapted to allow a plurality of players to play cards at said support surface, a base station remote from each of said support surfaces, a plurality of remote input/output devices, each of said input/output devices being remote from said base station and spaced apart from the others and being located on a different one of said support surfaces and including an input device for inputting data relating to bridge games played using said cards at the location of said input/output device, a transmitter for transmitting data to said base station, and a receiver for receiving data transmitted from said base station, each of said remote input/output devices having structure and programming for electronic bidding and scoring, and being usable sequentially by each of said plurality of players at said support surface to enter bidding and scoring information, said base station having a network transmitter for sending information regarding said game to said remote input/output devices, and a network receiver for receiving bidding and scoring data transmitted from said remote input/output devices.