Patent Document ID: 4234189
Application ID: 05972991

Base Claim:
1. For use in a card game: a deck of fifty-two playing cards divided into four suits of thirteen cards each, each suit being representative of two different forms of speech, and the four different suits being representative of eight different forms of speech, each card in each suit bearing designations of the two different forms of speech represented thereby, each card in each suit displaying two different letters of the alphabet, the thirteen cards in each suit displaying all twenty-six letters of the alphabet, corresponding cards in all four suits displaying the same two letter combinations; and means for determining trump, said trump determining means comprising a complication of words, the selection of one of which determines trump according to the form of speech of the selected word.

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Claim 2:
2. A deck of playing cards as set forth in claim 1 wherein the four different suits represent nouns, pronouns, verbs, interjections, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions and conjunctions, and each card in each suit bears designations of two of these.