Patent ID: 6899618

Claim:
A method of playing a one player card game of chance having a plurality of predetermined winning combinations within a full deck of fifty-two cards, such method comprising the steps of: randomly providing a plurality of cards that until selected by the one player define a set of non-selected cards, said plurality of cards being a subset of the full deck having less than fifty-two cards and where the subset has a minimum number of cards that is statistically certain to contain at least one winning combination of the plurality of winning combinations; displaying indicia of a winning combination of the plurality of predetermined winning combinations that is actually present within the plurality of cards in advance of selection of any card of the plurality of cards by the one player; and enabling the one player to select at least some of the plurality of cards for inclusion in a set of selected cards, wherein at least one other of the plurality of cards remains within the set of non-selected cards.