Patent ID: 8733758

Claim:
An apparatus for playing a poker puzzle game, comprising: a computing device configured to have a memory function for storing information relating to attributes of a pre-established card game, wherein the game is a form of poker, and wherein the goal of the poker puzzle game is to have a player of the instructive game guess the nature of at least one concealed card holding from the pre-established card game; a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays a reproduced portion of the pre-established card game to the player of the poker puzzle game, wherein a plurality of card game positions are held by number of card game players; a computing device configured to conceal cards held by players of the pre-established card game; a computing device configured to have a display device where said display device displays a question to be answered by the player playing the poker puzzle game; a computing device configured to compute values for aspects of the pre-established card game and utilize the computed values to generate and control the poker puzzle game; a computing device configured to receive help requests from the player of the poker puzzle game; a computing device configured to generate output to the display device for the player of the poker puzzle game by revealing additional information per instructive game rules or as requested by the player of the poker puzzle game; computing device configured receive inputs from the player of the poker puzzle game, wherein the input is a guess as to the nature of at least one concealed card holding of at least one player of the established game; a computing device configured to have a display device where said device displays a solution of the poker puzzle game; a computing device configured to calculate a score for the player of the poker puzzle game based on attributed related to how close the guess is to the actual concealed card holding from the pre-established game; and, a computing device configured to have display device where said display device displays the calculated score to the player of the poker puzzle game.