Patent ID: 8313365

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform the method comprising: (a) receiving electronic information comprising a first virtual deck having a collection of sequentially arranged virtual playing instruments, wherein the sequential arrangement of the virtual playing instruments has been determined by a method comprising: (i) physically randomizing a plurality of physical playing instruments without the use of a random number generator, wherein each physical playing instrument comprises at least one identifier; (ii) electronically determining the identity of at least two of the plurality of physical playing instruments in a sequential order; and (iii) electronically storing the identity of the at least two physical playing instruments determined in (ii), on the one or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums to create the first virtual deck of virtual playing instruments derived from the plurality of physical playing instruments for use in one or more electronic games, wherein the identities of the at least two physical playing instruments are stored in correlation to the sequence the identities were determined in (ii); (b) receiving a request for the first virtual deck of virtual playing instruments for use in the one or more electronic games; (c) comparing the sequential order and identifiers of the virtual playing instruments of the first virtual deck against a plurality of different virtual decks of virtual playing instruments including at least a second virtual deck and a third virtual deck, each of the plurality of different virtual decks having a sequential arrangement of virtual playing instruments, the virtual playing instruments having the at least one identifier; and (d) determining whether the sequential arrangement of the first virtual deck of virtual playing instruments is a duplicate of one of the sequential arrangements of any one of the plurality of different virtual decks.