Patent ID: 7404561

Claim:
A Lemonade Stand playing card game comprising a box for the components, the components including playing cards and a set of rules and a die, the playing cards including financial cards which constitute the majority of the playing cards and which teach the value of money in business, the playing cards also including timing cards which constitute the minority of the playing cards and which teach the value of time in business, the playing cards also including activity cards which constitute less than ten percent of the playing cards and which teach the value of actions in business wherein the rules include the steps of: dealing as follows: shuffling and dealing, face down, six cards to each player; placing the deck face down in the middle of the table; cutting the pack; and removing one half of the deck; commencing play as follows: a player to the left of the dealer drawing first; First a player tabling a Lemonade Stand card by placing the card in front of the player on the table; On the next turn, the player tabling the lowest money card in the player's hand onto the table; Each time a player draws, the player must table money or protect money cards, discard, or play any of the other cards explained below; To discard, placing a card next to pick up deck; once discarded, a card cannot be picked up front the discard pile; continuing play as follows: Each player taking a turn, each tabling a Stand card until a player who does not have a Stand can offer a money card from their hand and trade it with a player with an extra Lemonade Stand card; Any player can initiate a trade with the player whose turn it is, about to draw from the deck or is holding 7 cards, a deal can be for any card for any reason; At the end of each turn all players must have 6 cards, money cards count for a player if the player puts them on the table, only the highest money card retained in his hand counts against a player's score; scoring the end of each hand as follows: At the end of a hand, each player taking a turn counting out loud to a score keeper their total score by subtracting the highest money card in their hand from their total money down; The score keeper deducting ten percent from every player and adding that amount to the player holding the Stand Builder card, if not discarded earlier in the game or changed by the dice option; alternatively scoring the end of a hand as follows: scoring if the dice option is used is to reduce each score by the percent won, the best way to calculate this is with an amount of 10%, moving the decimal to the left one digit, i.e., 150=15, double that amount for 20%, tripling it for 30%, doubling the 10% and doubling it again for 40%, cut in half the total score of each player for calculating 50%, add all of the amounts to the Stand Builder's score; and ending the same as follows: A game is by hands or an amount, for example, the first player to reach one thousand dollars wins.