Abstract: A game that promotes abstract reasoning, problem solving, spatial reasoning, and time management may include use of particular game components, wherein the game components include a deck of cards; a random number generator; a random theme generator; a timer; and a card holder. The deck of cards may include a plurality of alphabet cards; a plurality of numerical cards; a plurality of bonus point cards; at least one universal symbol card; and at least one wild card. A separate deck may include at least one symbol card. The random theme generator may be a six sided dice, wherein each side of the dice has a theme marked thereon, the themes being: alpha, alpha number, alpha symbol, alpha number symbol, player choice, and dealer's choice. Playing the game may include manipulating a set of dealt cards to create words and phrases that correspond with a generated theme.

Abstract: An overlay having artwork printed thereon in a strategic location such that when placed over the front face of a card changes the look and appearance of the original artwork on the front face of the card. The overlay may be used with any type of card, but is preferably used with playing cards and trading cards, and is most preferably used with collectible trading cards.

Abstract: Simultaneous poker hands played on an elliptical, table incorporating two dealer stations with each dealer station including one or more of the following: automatic shuffler; chip rack and chips; poker cards; and drop box. Using the table facilitates the play of a game comprising broadly: positioning two dealers about a table at two independent dealer stations, each dealer station including one or more of the following: (i) automatic card shuffler; (ii) chip rack and chips; (iii) poker cards; and (iv) drop box; utilizing said two dealers to deal independent poker hands substantially simultaneously; and providing players with two distinctive chip sets to play said independent poker hands substantially simultaneously.

Abstract: A deck of playing cards wherein at least one card comprises a base layer that bears a front surface and a back surface and a substantially planar holographic optical element that is operatively configured to form a holographic image, the holographic optical element disposed at or towards a surface that is selected from the front and back surfaces the at least one card characterized in that the holographic optical element is of a type that is substantially transparent and manufactured to substantially prevent said holographic image from being viewed in a first range of directions with respect to the selected surface and to substantially enable said holographic image to be viewed from a second range of directions that are outside of the first range.

Abstract: A gaming accessory or gaming currency is provided. An antimicrobial agent is disposed in the material of the currency body or gaming accessory during fabrication and, due to the resiliency of the agent in withstanding the many stresses associated with the manufacturing process, the agent thereafter is substantially located on at least the outer surface of the currency body so as to kill or inhibit the growth of potentially harmful microorganisms that are introduced to the outer surface due to the excessive touching by multiple casino patrons and casino employees.

Abstract: A game piece with a hidden image that is visible through a decoder filter, with a first visible layer having an image gradient mapped to a first electromagnetic wavelength range and a second visible layer with a disguising mask and the image gradient mapped to a second electromagnetic wavelength range, the electromagnetic wavelength ranges selected based on a color hue for the decoder filter and the disguising mask having an electromagnetic wavelength within the second electromagnetic wavelength range. A method of making a game piece with a hidden image that is visible upon viewing through a decoder filter is disclosed.

Abstract: The disclosed Quark matter card game and methods of playing with cards represent elementary particles which provides first-hand, fun, attractive and enjoyable experience for laypersons such as for example, children, students and researchers to have a hands-on experience of particle and high energy heavy ion or nuclear physics using simple and inexpensive tools. Anyone who knows the colors, red, green, blue, black and white, can start to play one of the games described herein. According an embodiment, the disclosed card game is directed to a deck for playing an educational game, the deck comprises a plurality of card-like devices having a face bearing a representation of an elementary particle.

Abstract: A deck of playing cards wherein at least one card comprises a base layer that bears a front surface and a back surface and a substantially planar holographic optical element that is operatively configured to form a holographic image, the holographic optical element disposed at or towards a surface that is selected from the front and back surfaces the at least one card characterised in that the holographic optical element is of a type that is substantially transparent and manufactured to substantially prevent said holographic image from being viewed in a first range of directions with respect to the selected surface and to substantially enable said holographic image to be viewed from a second range of directions that are outside of the first range.

Abstract: A method for automating a card game includes wirelessly interrogating each of a plurality of playing cards using radio frequency transmissions. For at least some of the playing cards, determining a rank of the playing card is based on the wireless interrogation using a mapping stored on a computer-readable medium that uniquely identifies playing cards based on a random distribution of conductive material carried by each of the playing cards.

Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth a method of advertising using a cut card. In one embodiment of the present application, a method for providing an advertising message on a cut card during a card game is described. A cut card, including an advertising message region, is provided during a card game. The cut card is then used during at least one shuffle of the card game. During the shuffle, a camera is focused on the shuffle from an angle such that the advertising message is viewed in the advertising message region. Other embodiments of the present application disclose a cut card for use during a card game. The cut card comprises an advertising message region, wherein the advertising message region provides an area for viewing at least one advertising message, and wherein each side of the cut card provides one advertising region.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for playing cards that float and are water resistant for use in water environments. The playing cards comprise a foam layer and plastic layer laminated together, the foam layer for flotation purposes, and the plastic layer for ease of handling. The cards temporarily adhere to one another and to surfaces surrounding the water. The surface of the water itself may be used as a playing surface.

Abstract: A playing card for a game is constructed in layers and is electrically conductive through internal electronic circuitry. The electronic circuitry is electrically energized to generate an electrical signal that identifies suit and face value of the playing card. The electronic circuitry generates an electrical signal and sends it to an adjacent playing card in a deck. That card in turn appends its indicia to the signal and transmits the new signal to the next card in the deck and so on to the bottom card, thus, preserving the order of the cards. A dealing shoe, a cut-card and an image displaying card may be used in conjunction with the playing cards.

Abstract: A stackable playing card having a non-slip coating applied to at least one of the peripheral edges of the playing card.

Abstract: A set of candle dominoes includes a domino playground and a plurality of domino members. The domino playground has a playing area and includes a plurality of holding seats. The domino members are erected on the playing area in predetermined domino sequence to define a starter domino member and a final domino member, wherein each of the domino members includes a wax-made domino body sitting at the corresponding holding seat and an ignition rope upwardly extended from a top surface of the domino body for being ignited to produce an illumination effect, wherein the holding seats initially hold the domino member at an upright position and allow the domino member to be toppled, wherein when the starter domino member is toppled to hit an adjacent domino member until the final domino member is toppled, the domino members are sequentially brought down by the previous domino members.

Abstract: A zero-sum tiling game. A plurality of “domino-like” game pieces include indicia viewable on the top surfaces of the game pieces that correspond to one, or the other, or both of two halves of the game pieces. The indicia forms a binary set. The indicia associated with one half of the game piece may be summed to indicate the value for that type of indicia for that one half of the game piece, while the indicia may more generally be “added” or “summed” overall to obtain an overall value for any desired number of halves. Particularly, it is an object of the game to lay down game pieces in such a way that each piece that is laid down completes a square that consists of four halves, wherein the sum of the indicia for the four halves is zero.

Abstract: A set of playing cards is disclosed including a plurality of cards, wherein each card includes distinct indicia printed thereon such that a first image is revealed under lighted conditions and a second image is revealed under non-lighted conditions.

Abstract: A novel card game set including a plurality of card game block-style tiles. Each tile bears traditional Western-style card indicia. Each tile is made of a plurality of individually laminated wood layers permanently prressed together to form a high gade plywood piece. Each tile is completely covered with a protective waterproof enamel coating. The waterproof enamel coating has a granular substance to give each tile a semi-rough exterior surface to facilitate gripping. The tiles are of sufficient thickness for convenient handling by young, unskilled and arthritic persons. Each tile is of sufficient weight to resist the force of wind and sudden drafts for facilitating the playing of games outdoors. The card game set also including a rack for supporting the tiles in strategic alignment.

Abstract: A magnetic domino set is disclosed comprising a set of dominoes magnetically attracted to a playing surface which, when folded, also serves as an attractive carrying case for the dominoes.

Abstract: A card game played with a dead hand comprising, a deck of cards, the deck being divided into four suits, indicia on the back side of each card representative of the fifteen cards in each suit, such back side indicia including stars, moons, rockets and comets, indicia on the front side of each card having one of the four suits, plus the numbers 2 through 14 plus two trump cards marked with a T, the cards being formed of a somewhat relatively flexible material. The indicia is preferably formed of florescent material. Tokens are also provided, preferably fabricated with florescent material. Also provided is a box for exposing the cards and tokens to irradiating light.

Abstract: A cartridge in a book format for accommodating two decks of word-puzzle playing cards. The cartridge includes a top plate and a like base plate simulating the front and rear covers of a book whose inner surfaces, when the book is closed, are then in parallel relation. The top and base plate are interhinged by a slat that simulates the spine of the book. Formed on the inner surface of the base plate are two side-by-side compartments, the two decks of cards being received in these compartments. Formed on the inner surface of the top plate is a rectangular flange within which the two compartments nest when the book is closed, the flange then simulating the pages normally sandwiched between the covers of the book. Printed on the face of each card is a puzzle represented by two words, each having the same number of letters.

Abstract: An antistick playing-card made from a sheet of polyvinyl chloride coated with a paint and embossed with stripes and raised portions on two opposite surfaces thereof by means of the operation of an embossed impression cylinder and through the radiation of an ultraviolet device.

Abstract: An apparently conventional playing card is invisibly coded so that it can only be read face down, by an electro-optic reading means. The card may be of non-laminated conventional card stock which has a substantially white surface conventionally printed with the identification of the suit and value of the card with inks chosen because they are visible but substantially transparent to wavelengths outside the visible range. The face of the card is coded with indicia inklessly marked across its surface with a compound which absorbs wavelengths (outside the visible range) which wavelengths are used by the reading means to read the indicia. The indicia, invisible to the human eye, correspond to a code which uniquely identifies the card. The card may be laminated from top and base sheets and the code concealed behind the front printed face of the top sheet. The upper surface of the top sheet is imprinted with the face value of the card with the inks described.

Abstract: A method for playing a poker-type card game in which distributed cards by a dealer are sequentially bid by sequential players, wherein each bid is defined by a number of like cards held by each bidder or believed to be held by opposing players, whereupon each bid if successful awards a bidding player a predetermined amount of money from each opposing player, wherein such bid is challenged by an opposing player successfully, a bidding player must pay each opposing player an equal predetermined amount of currency.

Abstract: A competitive card wrestling game that simulates a competitive wrestling match. The game includes a plurality of images including a first portion of images representing wrestling "escape" maneuvers, a second portion of images representing wrestling "submission hold" maneuvers and a third portion of images representing wrestling "combat" maneuvers. The images may be sequentially displayed on playing cards or a video screen. Each competitor draws a plurality of images. The first competitor sequentially selects and displays three images. The second competitor sequentially selects and displays three images in response to those selected by their opponent. A "pin" occurs when the last sequentially displayed image by either competitor is a "submission hold" maneuver and the opposing competitor first sequentially displayed image in response thereto is any image other than an "escape" maneuver.

Abstract: A deck of playing cards wherein part or all of the indicia indicating the value of each card is formed of a holographic image which is clearly viewable from one range of angles, such as angles at or near an axis perpendicular to the surface of each card, and is obscured at other angles outside of or oblique to such range of angles. In one form the entire front surface of each playing card is formed with holographic images, and in another form only images adjacent to the periphery of each card are formed holographically. Cards constructed in accordance with the disclosure render difficult or impossible the viewing of a player's hand by persons standing or sitting near the holder.

Abstract: A holder assembly has strips of contact engaging material on the backs of the playing pieces and compatible strips of contact engaging strips on an obverse face of a piece holder adapted to rest upon a planar support. A hand grip protrudes from the reverse face of the piece holder. The grip is contoured to afford an easy grip to a player, especially those handicapped by arthritis or other hand crippling diseases. The grip is oblong and its long axis is at an angle to the lower edge of the holder, which seats on the planar support. The grip has opposed ends and the lower end is spaced from the lower holder edge so that it acts as a leg to support the holder at an angle to the support surface for better visibility of the playing pieces secured removeably to the holder by the contact between the engaging material strips on the pieces and on the holder. The pieces may be laid face down on the support and the holder then pressed upon them to be erected with the pieces in order in front of the player.

Abstract: A card game containing a plurality of transparent playing cards. Each playing card has a like number of similarly located playing sections with one or more indicia located within the playing section. Guide means, such as a plurality of guide cards or a table covering, are used to align each participant's playing cards. Some guide cards have one or more markings located thereon which, in the play of the game, serve the same function as the indicia on the playing cards. During the play of the game, each participant attempts to play his playing cards directly down upon each other in overlying relationship in such a manner that the indicia on two or more playing cards are not superimposed.

Abstract: This invention relates to plastic sheet material, and in particular concerns the production of a plastics sheet material which has a wide range of uses, because of the properties thereof.

Abstract: This device for simulating a bridge deal and the tricks accomplished during a a bridge game by means of movable blocks representing the hands and then the tricks comprises essentially a small game-board having cavities formed therein for receiving the movable blocks, each block having a visible face representing one of the 52 playing-cards; the cavities comprise a series of four grooves for inserting the blocks according to their specific suit, a series of four grooves for receiving the blocks corresponding to the cards of the four hands, and finally 13 rows of four cells each for receiving the blocks of the 13 tricks in four columns corresponding to the hands, from which the cards represented by the blocks are received.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fishing for cards game of skill which includes in combination a game board housing having a field of play upper surface member and a lower support surface member parallel to the upper surface. First side members are integrally secured to the upper surface member and disposed in a direction toward the lower surface. Second side members are integrally secured to the lower support surface and are disposed in a direction toward the upper surface. The upper surface with the first side members and the lower surface with the second side members cooperate to form a flat box shaped compartment. A spacing sheet having a roughened textured surface is disposed between the upper surface the lower surface and is in contact with the lower surface only. The field of play upper surface has an opening centrally located in the field of play. The opening communicating with an open region between the upper surface member and the roughened textured surface of the spacer sheet.

Abstract: A playing board of hollow construction defining a shallow cavity receiving a plurality of playing cards each having magnetic characteristics with the cavity being separated into three concentric areas defined by concentrically spaced boundary walls with the two innermost walls including passages to enable the cards to be moved from one area to the other by the use of a selector movable along the top surface of the playing board. The outermost playing area includes a player viewing window with a sliding cover to enable the cards to be selectively observed or concealed to facilitate playing poker with the game apparatus by using conventional poker playing rules.

Abstract: A card game in which a plurality of cards are employed each having thereon a plurality of indicia locations arranged to form rows and columns. In each set of cards, two or more sets making up a deck, one card of the set has an opaque indicia at a location different from every other card in that set. The remaining indicia locations on each card are transparent. In playing the game cards are drawn and placed in overlying relationship the object being to get a predetermined pattern of opaque indicia.