Patent ID: 6921075

Claim:
A method of playing a card game among two or more players, comprising: providing a plurality of playing cards, wherein each playing card of the plurality of playing cards has a front surface printed with an image depicting one class member of a class of items related to a theme of the card game and an opposing, back surface; dealing a predetermined number of the plurality of playing cards to each player to create a hand of playing cards for each player; in a plurality of rounds of playing cards, comparing in each round at least one playing card from the hand of playing cards of each player; determining a winner of each round from the comparison, wherein: each player decides which playing card of a round is a best playing card based on a subjective opinion of each player about a value of the class member depicted by the image on each playing card; if a majority of players agree which playing card of the round is the best playing card, a player holding the best playing card according to the majority of players wins the round; if the majority of players do not agree which playing card of the round is the best playing card, the two or more players refer to a neutral nonplayer for a decision, wherein the neutral nonplayer is to decide which playing card of the round is the best playing card based on a subjective opinion of the neutral nonplayer about the value of the class member depicted by the image on each playing card, and a player holding the best playing card according to the subjective opinion of the neutral nonplayer wins the round; if the two or more players refer to the neutral nonplayer for the decision and a neutral nonplayer decision cannot be obtained, the two or more players resort to an alternative basis for determining a winner of an undecided round; and declaring a player the winner of the card game.