Patent ID: 7694970

Claim:
A method of conducting a game comprising: providing each player a collection of tokens from a set of tokens, said set of tokens formed of a subset of tokens wherein each subset includes an identical number of tokens, said subsets of tokens having a hierarchical ranking from lowest to highest; causing each player to identify the player's collection of tokens as a winning collection of tokens, or a non-winning collection of tokens or an unplayable collection of tokens, said identification of a winning collection of tokens based on a player holding a collection of tokens belonging to a group of one or more pre-established winning collections of tokens; after each player has identified the player's collection of tokens as a winning or non-winning collection of tokens or an unplayable collection of tokens, causing each player having identified a non-winning collection of tokens to discard one or more of the tokens from the non-winning hand such that the player holds no more than three tokens and no more than one token from any one of the subset of tokens; providing an independent token from the remaining tokens in the set of tokens for comparison with each player's identified held non-winning collection of tokens; determining, based on the comparison, whether any player's held non-winning collection of tokens comprises a winning or losing outcome.