Abstract: A dominoes starting template for providing a location for each player of a multiple-player game of dominoes a location for laying their dominoes during play. The template includes a plate having first and second surfaces, and a number of sides. The plate has a spinner hole therethrough between the first and second surfaces of the plate sized to receive a domino therein. Each of the sides of the plate has a pair of cutouts therethrough between the first and second surfaces of the plate. Each cutout of the pair of cutouts of each of the sides of the plate is sized for receiving an end portion of a domino therein.

Abstract: An integrated blackjack game control system having multiple sensors and output devices, electronic signal processing equipment, passive and active operator control devices, and a computer system. The system components are capable of being installed on or near existing blackjack tables and support equipment, and to operate with standard playing cards. The system performs several simultaneous functions to accelerate the play of a game of blackjack, enhance the shuffling process, and perform continuous monitoring of key dealer and table performance attributes.

Abstract: A bridge bidding device having a keypad visible only to the user and a display board visible to the other players. The keypad and display board are each arranged in two rows of ten blocks. The keypad has bidding indicia on each block that includes the numbers one through seven, the four card suits and NT, and PASS, DBL, REDBLE, SKIP BID and ALT. The keypad also has the control indicia for BID, ER and CLOSE. The keypad blocks are also touchpads for the transmission of the bidding and control information. The top row of the display board can exhibit the numbers one through seven and PASS, DBL, REDBLE, SKIP BID and ALT. The bottom row of the display board can exhibit the four card suits and NT. The bidding information is exhibited by means of light emitting diodes. A large-scale silicon integrated active component and support components mounted on a multilayer printed circuit board controls the accumulation and dissemination of information.

Abstract: A table top having several playing stations each with a card holder that can be separately oriented and fixed at a desired angular orientation relative to the table top's main planar surface. Fasteners on each holder permit one or more playing cards, such as bingo cards, to be held while they may be looked at and marked upon by a player. Rigid side card holder support legs engage lower spaced stops in an indentation in each playing station within the main planar surface to permit the holders to be oriented and fixed at the different angles.

Abstract: A card game in which cards can be readily assembled and disassembled from a wide variety of three dimensional structures. The game includes card holders which enable cards to be assembled into a structure with card extending along several axes normal to one another and with a plurality of cards extending vertically upward from a support surface.

Abstract: A card holder has two rigid panels that are flexibly connected to each other along edges thereof by a flexible hinge. Pockets are located on one side of each panel, for example, such that an opening of at least one pocket on each panel is directed toward the common edge. Preferably, the pockets on one panel face the pockets on the other panel when the card holder is in a closed position and face away from the pockets on the other panel when the card holder is in an open position. Preferably, the first and second rigid panels are attached to each other by only the flexible hinge, and include no additional supporting structure to maintain the card holder in the open position. Thus, the card holder is incapable of maintaining itself in the open position.

Abstract: Portable folding board games are provided. These games include a pair of elongate board members. A first side of each board member includes (i) a plurality of apertures each constructed to receive a game peg, and (ii) a well constructed to retain a plurality of game pegs when the board is not in use, and an opposite side of each board member includes (i) a first slot, extending across the width of the board member near a first end of the board member, and (ii) a second slot, extending across the width of the board member near the opposite end of the board member. The board game further includes a pair of securing loops, each loop being constructed to be wrapped around the two board members, when the board members are placed with their first sides facing, in a manner so that the loop extends into the first and second slots and is retained therein. Cribbage board systems are also provided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing card wagering games that enables players to select the playing card game to be played for a particular wagering round from among multiple playing card game options. Where different decks of playing cards are required for certain of the optional playing card games, a multi-deck card holder is provided, permitting a dealer to make an immediate selection of the appropriate playing cards upon selection of the playing card game by a player at that table. Upon the conclusion of one wagering round, selection of the next playing card game is made by the same or a different player, and the play continues with the selection of playing card games entirely at the option of the players.

Abstract: An outdoor card playing surface is provided including a table cover having at least one bore formed therein. A plurality of thin rectangular playing cards each have a top face with a common design thereon and a bottom face with playing indicia formed thereon. Each of the playing cards further has a hole formed therein. At least one peg is mounted within the bore of the cover for releasably receiving the hole of any one of the playing cards.

Abstract: A carrier convertible from a carrying and storage mode to a playing mode. There are two bins which, in the carrying mode, are positioned on either side of one or more boards. The bins interlock with each other and with the boards so that the whole device may be easily carried as a unit. The interlock may be formed from posts and holes, depressions and protrusions, etc. When a user wishes to play bingo or other similar type game, the carrier is quickly and easily converted to playing mode. The latches are disengaged to allow the two bins to separate. This frees the boards from their confinement by the interlock. There is a groove in the backs of the boards. When the boards are set up for play, the grooves are set to rest over and engage either the low front edge of the bins, or the higher back edge of the bins. In this position, the boards provide an inclined surface for holding and displaying multiple bingo cards for convenient viewing and playing.

Abstract: A collectable sports card sorter comprising various elements that when assembled form a rotating stadium with a novel game board upon which up to four innovative simulated sports games can be played, including but not limited to, baseball, basketball, football and soccer. Each of the sports games can be played at a level 1 or II, utilize 6-sided, 12-sided and 20-sided dice on which letter designations dictate plays or moves, and the rules for one sports are similarly applicable to the other sports as well. Players may play to win or lose sports trading cards, but the cards themselves are not required game pieces. The sorter can accomodate sports trading cards by individual team players, specific sports teams, divisions, or a combination of sports trading cards for a variety of sports. An add-on accessory feature of the sorter allows the unit to be utilized as a play house for young children, or hobby kit for sports fans of any age.

Abstract: A game box protector (210) which has a housing (212) having a housing top (212A) which has at least one housing top insert (212AA) extending in a downwardly direction functioning as a locking means. The housing (212) further has a housing middle (212B) having a housing middle front (212BAA) securely fastened to a housing middle back (212BBA) at an outer left side edge by a housing middle left side (212BLA). The housing middle front (212BAA) is securely fastened to The housing middle back (212BBA) at an outer right side edge by a housing middle right side (212BRA). A housing middle plate (212BC) is securely fastened an outer perimeter to an inner side edge of the housing middle back (212BBA) and the housing middle left side (212BLA) and the housing middle back (212BBA) and the housing middle right side (212BRA).

Abstract: An entertainment and educational board game is disclosed which requires players to answer questions arranged in a hierarchy ranging from most difficult questions to questions of intermediate difficulty, and then to questions of least difficulty, and includes a playing board, a star-shaped playing course on the playing board and formed from a plurality of joined playing spaces, a plurality of sets of question cards with each set representing a particular question category, a plurality of question card boxes for the sets of question cards, and a rotatable question card box holder having compartments for holding the question card boxes and question cards. The players take turns in their attempts to correctly answer the questions printed on the question cards starting with the most difficult question level.

Abstract: A playing card holder and dispenser comprises a sleeve having a collar about the top end of the sleeve which is mounted to a playing card table with the collar resting on the top of the table and the rest of sleeve extending vertically beneath the top of the table and further comprises a card storage container having an over-sized top wall separated from a front wall to define an opening through which a playing card can be passed. A card support and pusher device is slidably disposed inside the container and comprises a card support member, a pair of elongate spring guides, a pair of springs, a spring support, and a pusher means stop member. A stack of playing cards are stacked on the card support member inside the storage container and are urged upward toward the top end of the storage container by the springs such that the top card is adjacent to and in alignment with an opening through which a user slides the top card.

Abstract: A module for announcing when a Dealer has blackjack without exposing the face of the Dealer's down-card. The module scans a character from the Dealer's face-down standard playing card, compares the result of the scan with a set of references, and identifies the down-card. The module also receives input from the Dealer as to the identity of the Dealer's up-card, and announces whether the Dealer has blackjack or the hand continues. The module is designed to be mounted to a blackjack table such that the surface of the module on which the standard playing card rests while being scanned is in the plane of the surface of the blackjack table, allowing the Dealer to slide the down-card across the table and onto the scanner without lifting, and potentially exposing, the card's face. The module also removes the noise generated by a casino's heat, dust, cigarette and cigar ashes, and lint from the felt of the blackjack table, during the scanning process.

Abstract: A help-in-hand device that includes a housing member. The housing member has a base portion with four peripheral walls attached. The base has an upper surface that is accessible from within the housing member. Included are a pair of linear raised portions that are attached to the upper surface of the base portion. The pair of linear raised portion are spaced apart so as to define a channel. An extension pole with a bulbous end is coupled within the channel to the pair of linear raised portions. The extension pole is capable of rotating upward and downward within the housing. A clip is attached to the extension pole and capable of clasping a bingo card. Lastly, a lid is provided. The lid has a top portion with a front end, a back end and a pair of side ends. The lid is capable of being slidably positioned over the housing.

Abstract: A card game comprising a plurality of playing cards representing current U.S. political figures. Each playing card has a front surface and a back surface. The front surface displays a picture of a political figure accompanied by his/her name and job title. The back surface contains information about the political figure depicted on the front surface. Each playing card may also include information encoded thereon indicating the political ideology (Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, or the like) of the political figure depicted on the front surface. The encoded information is not immediately decipherable by the casual observer. The playing cards may be integrated into a game system via a looseleaf-type game binder divided into state sections representing the states of the United States. The game binder may include apparatus for revealing the encoded political ideology of each political figure when his/her playing card is placed therein.

Abstract: The playing card organizer comprises: a planar mat having a playing surface and a back surface, a plurality of strap members aligned parallel to one another and connected to the playing surface, and a plurality of card slots defined by the strap members and the playing surface adapted for holding playing cards in a fixed position. The playing card organizer allows a player to collect books of cards of the same rank together and facilitates the playing of card games in windy locations or on unstable surfaces.

Abstract: An educational card game designed to develope mathematical abilities, to perform various combined operations by dealing cards to each player and selecting at random a card designating the number that must be calculated from the card numbers of each players hand; wherein a timing device is provided to deal out the cards.

Abstract: A bingo box (10) comprises substantially identical first and second relatively rigid containers (12, 14) each having a hinged angled panel (38) for providing a working angled surface (36) with clamps (48) at one end thereof. The first container includes a right hinge means at an intersection of its tapered right edge wall (20) and base sidewall (16) and the second container including a left hinge means at an intersection of its tapered left edge wall and base sidewall. The right and left complementary hinge elements are selectively engagable with one another for allowing the first and second containers to rotate relative to one another between a carrying configuration in which the base sidewalls are adjacent one another and a working configuration in which the base and work sidewalls (18) are approximately coplanar to one another. Storage spaces can be accessed via the hinged angled panels when the containers are in both the carrying configuration and the working configuration.

Abstract: A board game for simulating the game of baseball in which baseball trading cards are utilized as playing pieces. The game includes a board having a baseball diamond pictured thereon and a plurality of card holders into which baseball trading cards may be positioned. A deck of pitcher cards provides a random pitch to a player at bat, such as a strike, ball, or hit, and a deck of action cards provides a random result of the batter's action, such as a hit, out, or homerun. The game pieces are then moved in accordance with the rules of conventional baseball. The game board and the card holders may be provided with illumination for enhancing appearance and facilitating nighttime play.

Abstract: An improved cribbage game apparatus includes a cribbage score board having a single scoring path for each player in order to obviate the need to repeat the counting or scoring lap and thus reducing confusion as to the laps completed. The board is larger than standard and the opponents' pegging or scoring paths are widely separated for further ease of use. The board folds for ease of storage, and includes separate storage space therein for each of the scoring pegs and at least one deck of cards when folded. The pegs are symmetrical to provide for ease of manipulation, and are differentiated by color and/or shape for each player for further ease of use. The board and pegs may be formed with differently shaped holes and peg ends for each player, thus precluding placement of one player's peg in another player's board path.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a football game simulation apparatus, including: a game board; indicating apparatus disposed in said game board to indicate a quarter of a football game being simulated; scoring apparatus disposed in said game board to indicate scores of teams playing the football game being simulated; and holding apparatus disposed in the game board to temporarily hold therein cards employed in playing a simulated football game.

Abstract: A game having a card viewing device played by a plurality of players or teams of players. The game provides a plurality of multi-dimensional challenges that test player knowledge and reasoning, a player responding to a challenge in a pre-determined length of time. The game provides a card viewing device, a plurality of category game cards, a plurality of acronym game cards, at least one die, a timing device, a plurality of score indicating devices of varying color or shape where each color or shape corresponds to a challenge category and a plurality of score indicating holding devices. An initiating player is determined by the roll of at least one die. The die is rolled again by the initiating player to determine the nature of the challenge. The challenge may be to guess a question, guess an answer or plurality of answers, or the player's may choose the challenge depending on the die roll. Also a player may lose his or her turn depending on the die roll.

Abstract: A recycling game apparatus includes a toy vehicle having a plurality of bins for holding game pieces and having a card caddy thereon. A deck of cards is supported in the toy vehicle card caddy along with a plurality of game pieces with each game piece having a shaped emulative of a recycling member and stored in a marked bin. The game pieces can be moved into and out of the bins in playing the game. Each card in the deck of cards has information concerning one recycling item which is emulative of at least one game piece, such as aluminum, newspaper, glass, or plastic. Each toy vehicle plurality of bins may be marked with indicia to indicate aluminum, paper, glass, plastic, or trash. The toy vehicle is used to store the game with cards and pieces as well as used in playing the game.

Abstract: A board game apparatus, comprising a flat, multi-sided game board having a course of successive playing spaces generally positioned along the periphery thereof, successive ones of the spaces being colored with one of a given plurality of colors, a chance device, operable by a player, for selecting one color of the plurality of colors, a manually operable playing piece for each player participating in the game, for indicating the current spatial position of each player along the course, a plurality of groups of color cards, where all the cards of each group of cards are the same color, and each group of cards being a different one of the plurality of colors; and a plurality of color card folders, at least a portion of each folder being colored a different one of the plurality of colors and having a plurality of compartments defined therein which are dimensioned so as to individually receive color cards therein.

Abstract: A holder for displaying a bingo card for pickup includes a pair of vertically extensible wire rods, the lower one of which is attached to a supporting base and the upper one of which includes an integral wire clip for releasably holding the card or other thin sheet materials. The clipped card may be held and displayed for pickup by extending the upper rod member to hold the material above the player's table. The extensible rods are preferably demountable from the base and the base provided with receptacles for other bingo-playing accessories. The holder, base and accessories may be conveniently packaged and sold as a kit.

Abstract: A device for speeding the pace of a game of blackjack is provided. The device is comprised of a housing having a top surface and an upper planar portion. The top surface will be connected on top to the upper planar portion. A card reader for reading a corner of a specialized playing card is located within the housing. An indicator cooperating with the card reader is provided to inform the dealer if his down card is of a desired value. There is also disclosed herein a method for increasing the speed of play in an organized game of blackjack.

Abstract: A base block is arranged to mount a first transparent web, wherein a top block is mounted to the base block to mount and secure a second transparent web in a coextensive relationship relative to the first transparent web to permit the positioning of a plurality of bingo cards between the webs, with bingo dauber members arranged for marking through the transparent web structure for imparting reference to the underlying bingo cards.

Abstract: A new and improved educational board game is disclosed that employs dice, personal markers, a plurality of two-sided game cards, and a game board. The game board includes indicia, a portion of which corresponds to different levels of difficulty of a predetermined educational category such as history, and a portion of which corresponds to instructions with respect to movement of the personal markers along the game board. The front side of the game card bears a picture of a historical figure, and the back side bears textual information about the historical figure on the front side. During a player's turn, when the player selects one of the game cards, the player looks at the picture on the front side of the selected card. Another player then reads aloud information relating to the picture from the back side of the card. From the information read aloud, the first player learns factual knowledge and makes a guess at the identity of the historical figure in the picture.

Abstract: A bingo sheet organizing device having a first panel with a size suitable for receiving a bingo sheet, a second panel having a size suitable for receiving a bingo sheet, and a body connected in hinged relationship to an edge of the first and second panels. The first and second panels extend radially outwardly from the body. A suitable retainer is provided so as to retain the bingo sheet on each of the panels. The body is a tubular member having at least one hinge member extending outwardly therefrom. The hinge member extends generally longitudinally along the body. A handle is fastened to an exterior surface of the tubular member and extends outwardly transverse to a plane of the second panel. An elastic band extends around the first panel distal to the connection of the first panel to the body so as to receive the bingo sheet therewithin. A lip is formed along an edge of the first panel in resilient contact with the panel so as to receive an edge of the bingo sheet.

Abstract: The game apparatus of the present invention comprises a plurality of game cards with each game card having an indicia bearing front and rear face. The front face of each card includes a pictorial representation and the rear face has a worded description of that particular pictorial representation. The game apparatus further includes a card support for supporting the cards individually in a generally upright position with the pictorial representation on the front face of each card in an exposed position and the worded description on the rear face of each card being viewable from the rear of the card support without having to remove the card from the card support. The players of the game include one guesser at least one bluffer and a truth teller. The bluffers and the truth teller view the back of the card. The bluffers then give an inaccurate statement and the truth teller gives an accurate statement as to the pictorial representation on the card.

Abstract: A card dealing case comprises an open-topped deck receiving housing and a sleeve form cover completely receiving the housing in a closed condition. The housing has a ramp surface adjacent a rim of the open top across which uppermost cards can be dealt, leading edges first, one-by-one by forward and downward pressure of a dealers finger. Releasable catch members are formed on the cover and housing to lock the housing containing the cards completely within the cover. In another example, the dealing opening in the top of the housing is of restricted size so that the identity of the uppermost card is concealed until dealt and a resiliently compressible foam pad is interposed in the housing between the bottom of the deck and the base wall to bias the deck towards the top of the housing, thereby maintaining the uppermost card aligned with the ramp surface after some cards have been dealt, irrespective of the height of the remaining deck.

Abstract: A carrying case is opened to arrange in a planar relationship, the housing floor of each mirror image housing. The structure includes cooperative handle retractably mounted with each rear end wall of the first and second housing, with elastomeric bands mounted to exterior surfaces of the floors of the first and second housings for securement of bingo card members therewithin. Spaced chambers are formed adjacent upper terminal ends of the forward end wall to accommodate bingo components, such as bingo chips, pencils, and the like. A modification of the invention includes each floor formed with an underlying illumination member positioned longitudinally of and coextensively with a translucent sheet coextensive with an overlying transparent sheet, wherein a bingo card member is positioned between the translucent and transparent sheets for mounting and positioning in play of a bingo game.

Abstract: In a card game, the folding box and/or individual or every playing card thereof are provided with a printed form corresponding to the address part of a postcard or parcel. Thereby, the card game or the individual playing cards thereof are made directly accessible to mailing by post and sent as a vehicle for sending greetings, advertising media, a gift and the like.

Abstract: The device consists of a hollow tubular body which has, at one side at its upper portion, four parallel slots intended to each receive a pack of thirteen cards in one of the colours of a deck of cards. A vertical screen disposed at the rear of the slots prevents the packets of cards being seen by the other players. The other portion of the body houses a wound tape on which a list of the player's successive hands is printed. This list comes out through a slot towards the bottom of the body and then enters inside the latter through a slot and comes out through a slot. The player reads on the portion of the tape coming out through the slot 9 the disposition of the hand to be played and quickly forms this hand by means of the packs of cards housed inside the slots. The device enables a player at a table to quickly form a predetermined bridge hand.

Abstract: A scheduling aid is provided that permits extremely rapid selection of a required number of combinations from a given field of choice, as a logic process enhancement. The scheduling aid can be operated in regards to numbers, such as making lottery selections or for making up work schedule and similar organizational activities. In the matter of lottery number combinations the system makes possible the generation of a total or a partial series of combinations of a predetermined number of choices from a predetermined field of numbers. Conversely, the system also lends itself to the rapid checking of winning ticket combinations from a plethora of such tickets. Unlike known prior art devices the system permits simultaneous combination selections from a plurality of individual fields, being usable at rates exceeding those achievable even with a computer.

Abstract: A traveling card table comprised of a flexible sheet member having card pockets and pencil pockets provided at the upper surface thereof. An elongated flexible strap is secured to the underside of the card table and is designed to receive either a magazine or a tray table to provide the necessary stability to the card table to enable a card game to be played thereon.

Abstract: An apertured device translatably receives a lottery ticket in juxtaposed relationship with the aperture to display a set of numbers appearing upon the lottery ticket. A panel adjacent the aperture accommodates entry of a predetermined set of numbers to permit visual correlation between the displayed set of numbers and the predetermined set of numbers.

Abstract: A bingo caddy useful for transporting and containing bingo player's paraphernalia including a pillow and slanted fold-out multiple playing surfaces with a holding device to hold bingo cards or the like and user friendly placement of marker's etc. The bingo caddy has a unique two section lid or top which folds into a compartmentalized configuration for easy access to all paraphernalia.

Abstract: A card reader for a blackjack table comprised of a card reading device and a housing therefor, said housing attachable to the blackjack table. The card reading device has associated therewith a light source, a power source for energizing said light source, and a platform coplanar with said blackjack table defining an aperture for reading a portion of a face-down playing card. Said aperture is covered partially by a cover to minimize the opportunity of black jack players other than the dealer to view the portion of the card being inspected. A reflective surface is disposed generally below said aperture to reflect the portion of the face-down card being read through the non-covered portion of the aperture to reveal to the dealer any indicia on the portion of the face down card being read. There is also disclosed herein a method for increasing the speed of play in an organized game of blackjack.

Abstract: The present invention is a peg type score keeping game board which is two game boards in one and is specifically suited by design to facilitate card games such as the game GIVE-A-WAY and CRIBBAGE.

Abstract: A game carrying and playing device including a case having a top, bottom, front, back and sides. The top includes a surface for supporting one or more game cards. The sides are of trapezoidal shape so that, when the bottom is positioned on a horizontal surface, the top surface is inclined with respect to the horizontal. The device also includes a storable, compartmentalized tray or container, and structure on the back of the case for detachably supporting the tray adjacent to the top surface when the case is in the playing position.

Abstract: A stiff card game playing panel is provided and a plurality of stiff members are wrapped with adhesive coated decorative sheets having free end portions adhesively secured to the panel in positions relative to each other and in conjunction with spacing strips in order to form a plurality of card receiving pockets on the card playing panel. Thus formed, each packet is completely seamless. This is important because even a butted joint interferes with the insertion of a playing card.

Abstract: A Bridge board for outdoor use, comprises a playing surface that can be placed between opposing pairs of players seated around the board and participating in a game of Bridge such that the players can deposit their cards on said playing surface during the game. The playing surface has at a first player station a first array of pockets designed to retian dummy's cards in exposed overlapping relationship such that dummy's cards are visible to the players seated around the board, a second array of pockets in the middle of the playing surface for retaining the cards of each trick as it is played such that the cards thereof are visible to eacy player, and third and fourth arrays of pockets at second and third player stations for separately retaining the tricks of the opposing pairs as the tricks are scored. The game can be conveniently played outdoors in the presence of wind.

Abstract: A case particularly adapted to be utilized when playing Bingo. The case includes a lid which can be opened and expand to have an enlarged playing area substantially twice the surface area of the lid itself, and when thusly deployed, a marker storage area is exposed to allow access to Bingo markers. A pair of swinging doors is provided adjacent the front of the case which swing out and allows a plurality of different markers to be stored thereat whereby a plurality of Bingo games can be played simultaneously in a limited amount of space.

Abstract: A multiple clip holding assembly (10) is advantageously provided to hold up to four bingo cards (56-62) for optimum use of space in the course of play. Holding compartments (44,48) are defined by respective portions of first leg (40), first upright member (22) and wall structure (16). Holding compartments (46, 50) are defined by respective portions of second cantilevered member (32), first cantilevered member (24) and wall structure (16). Cards (56-62) are respectively held in holding compartments (44-50) in a releasable, frictional fashion due to the biasing action of endmost portions (34) and lowermost portions (26). In an alternative embodiment, top clip (64) may be used to engage topmost portions of top cards (56,60) for further stability.

Abstract: A board game comrpises a playing surface constituted by a board printed with a number of graduated tracks. Markers are positioned within the tracks and cards are provided which are printed with remarks. The remarks are accessed by the players of the game with the use of assessment indicators each adapted to indicate one of a plurality of predetermined assessments of the remarks. Two different types of cards are employed. One type of card contains character attribute remarks, and the other type of card contains opinion statements.

Abstract: A convenient, foldable game board for holding game cards for Bingo and similar games, wherein the cards are temporarily adhered to the board and can be peeled off and removed or replaced by the player. Various means are disclosed for peelably adhering the cards to the board. These include tacky substances applied to the board or applied to the cards, non-tacky liquid substances which migrate to the surface of the board to provide temporary adhesion and non-tacky latently adhesive coacting material pairs.

Abstract: A dispenser for playing cards includes a shoe adapted to contain stacked playing cards and dispense a single card at a time. The shoe includes a front wall adapted to conceal the leading card of the stack. A slot sized to permit a playing card to pass through is positioned adjacent the floor and front wall. The dispenser also includes a card pusher adapted to urge the stack cards down an inclined floor and a contact roller for dispensing cards. An endless belt located in an opening in the front wall engages the contact roller. The belt also securely engages a pair of inner rollers spaced by a predetermined distance such that displacement of the belt by the operator through the predetermined distance causes rotation of the contact roller to advance the leading card into and substantially out of the slot. The predetermined distance is preferably selected to approximate the distance which operators are accustomed to move the leading card when dealing the leading card from a manual shoe.