Abstract: A two-card sleeve apparatus is described. The two-card sleeve apparatus may include a first transparent layer, an opaque layer, and a second transparent layer. The two-card sleeve apparatus may be used to safely store or display two or more trading cards.

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. In some embodiments, the overlay changes the original text printed on the card (1) to provide a translation of that text into any desired language, or (2) to provide updated rule changes from the rules originally printed on the card, or (3) to provide both a translation as well as updated rule changes, if desired. 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: A new trivia-based card game comprising a deck of cards with a plurality of planar playing cards. Each planar playing card has three orthogonal pieces of information on its playing surface: an index, a card value, and a topic. Each planar playing card also has an answer value list and an answer list on its playing surface. The deck of cards may be sorted into unique sub-sets based off of index, card value, or topic. All of the planar playing cards contained in each sub-set sorted by topic share an answer value list and an answer list. A trivia-based card game can be played with such a deck.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a card game. A card game has sixty cards identified by either its numerical value from one to fifteen or on point value you will be rewarded when it's time to calculate your score. The cards are two sided and include four different colors: red, blue, green, and yellow. The game will also have eight picture cards. The game is played with four players and ends when a player scores two hundred points. Even though the game is played with four players, there are two to a team. The teams may change on each round. The winner of the game is the individual player who has the least amount of points when another player reaches or exceeds two hundred points.

Abstract: Nonconventional playing cards, nonconventional decks of playing cards and method of playing and presenting games using such cards are provided. A nonconventional deck of playing cards may comprise a plurality of playing cards each having a card face bearing at least a primary indicium and a secondary indicium, the primary indicium comprising a card rank, at least a first number of the plurality of playing cards having a first card rank and a second number of the plurality of playing cards having a second card rank, the first and second numbers of cards being different. The primary indicia may comprise characters and the secondary indicia may comprise card background colors. A deck may comprise cards of 6 ranks and cards of each rank varying between 6 and 12 cards.

Abstract: A melding card game and method of play includes 114 numbered, face, ace, mulligan, joker, and wild cards. A round is played in which nine layout cards are dealt face-down to players and arranged in a grid. Each player turns at least one layout card face up and takes a turn. In the turn, each player draws a drawn card from a discard or draw pile and plays or discards the drawn card. If the player plays the drawn card, the player replaces a layout card with the drawn card. The players play one additional turn after an ender player turns all of their respective cards face up. A score for each player is then determined. A penalty is assigned to the ender player if another player has a lower score. Nine rounds are played. The player with the lowest total score is declared the winner.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for multiplayer team balancing in a virtual environment. A group activity is provided in which at least two teams of avatars participate. Each team has a respective plurality of distinct avatars, and each avatar is controlled by a respective player. The at least teams are in competition with one another to achieve a predefined objective when participating in the group activity. Upon it being determined, when the group activity is in progress, that a first player of a first avatar on a first team of the at least two teams is no longer available to participate in the group activity, a balancing action is performed in order to compensate for the first player no longer being available to participate in the group activity.

Abstract: In accordance with a poker game, a player is dealt a first set of cards, such as 5 cards. The player elects which cards to hold and which cards to discard, if any. Upon discarding any cards, a player is dealt a second set of cards, preferably in the same number as the first set of cards. Subsets of the second set of replacement cards are combined with the cards held from the first set of cards to form final hands of cards. Each final hand is evaluated to determine if it is a winning or losing hand, such as against a standard poker paytable. Awards may be varied depending upon the size of the player's wager and/or the number of cards the player holds/discards from the first set.

Abstract: A new deck of cards and a method of facilitating a card game with said new deck of cards are provided. The method including receiving a set of wagers from a player on an outcome of a card game played using a deck of cards, the deck of cards including five groups of cards, each group of card represented by a unique suit and thirteen cards within each group of cards, the thirteen cards each having a unique rank, wherein the unique ranks include one of ace or one, the numbers two through ten, and three face cards, dealing the cards of the deck of cards according to one or more rules characterizing the card game and providing a return based on the outcome of the card game with respect to the set of wagers.

Abstract: A card game involves players competing for respective shares of an inheritance from a decedent. Trick-taking rounds are played in which players estimate the number of tricks they expect to take based on their dealt hands. Successful achievement of the estimated number of tricks earns an inheritance payout, while failure to match the estimate results in a debt owed to the bank. The majority of cards are divided into suits, each of which corresponds to a different line of descendants related to the decedent, and each of which has a hierarchy of familial positions. A small number of ‘lawyer cards’ are included that outrank the suited family cards, and that can be played to take the hand when a player cannot follow suit.

Abstract: A deck of game playing cards is disclosed containing approximately 104 playing cards, each card having a back side which is similar to each of the other playing cards such that the cards cannot be distinguished by observing the back side, and a front side containing an indication of location, quantity and suit, such that when a first playing card is placed adjacent to a second playing card, the combination results in a playing card similar to a standard playing card, but approximately twice the size of the standard playing card.

Abstract: A game element for use in a genetic deck based game. The game element includes indicia to partition a larger set of game elements into ordered subsets of game elements. The game element also includes a unique identifier for the genetic deck.

Abstract: A method for playing a poker game involving a plurality of players and a dealer, said method comprising the steps of: each player wagering the same amount to create a pot amount; dealing a first card face-down to each player and to the dealer; dealing a second card face-down to each player and to the dealer; dealing a first burn card face-down; dealing three community cards face-up; dealing a second burn card face-down; dealing a fourth community card face-up; dealing a third burn card face-down; dealing a fifth community card face-up; exposing each players' and the dealer's two cards; determining the best poker hands made by each player's two cards and made by the dealer's two cards in combination with the five face-up community cards; and paying or crediting the net pot amount to the player who makes the best poker hand being higher than the dealer's best poker hand.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a game of poker in which player actions are fixed by game rules.

Abstract: A gaming machine executing the processing of (A) accepting an input for placing a normal bet; (B) accepting an input for placing a side bet different from the normal bet, (C) starting a card game and displaying a player initial card on a display; (D) determining a result of a side game based on the player initial card, when a side bet has been placed; and (E) offering a first payout based on the result of the side game, advancing the card game to determine a result of the card game, and offering a second payout based on the result of the card game.

Abstract: In the gaming machine according to the present invention, an attribute of a card to be compared with an attribute of a player additional card is determined. In a case where a side bet is placed, a result of the side game is determined by determining whether or not the attribute of the player additional card is same as the determined attribute. The additional payout is offered based on the determined result of the side game.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a novel game of chance for use in existing table game formats, for example, in live casinos, in video games, and in computer/animated game playing software. The method comprises playing a game with at least one player and a dealer using at least one deck of conventional playing cards, each card ranked from lowest to highest as Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King. The player is declared the winner if the player has a card lower in rank than the dealer's most recently dealt card, or if the dealer busts.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are described. Some examples include determining cards, determining actions that must be taken by a player according to game rules, game rules that require certain actions to be taken in certain circumstances, determining outcomes of games according to poker rankings of hands of cards, awards to winning players, and/or other desired features. Further embodiments are described.

Abstract: A method and system of generating, funding, and distributing multiple jackpots in a game such as poker, specifically such as Texas Hold 'Em. The jackpots may be separate, independent bad beat jackpots that pay out at different intervals due to having independent triggering conditions that have different odds of occurring. Preferably, the triggering condition for each jackpot may be a losing player's hand strength. The specific values for the triggering conditions may be chosen by random, may be generally evenly distributed over the number of jackpots, may be determined by an algorithm, e.g., one that relies on the odds of each hand occurring, or by another method. The jackpots may be funded from rakes collected from substantially every hand that is played—subject to certain prerequisites being established—such that each jackpot may be considered progressive in that it grows over time.

Abstract: A modified blackjack card game uses standard playing cards. If the dealer hand sum is 2-15, the dealer must take an additional card. If the dealer hand sum is 16-21 all wagers are resolved. A player's wager is won if their hand sum is higher than the dealer's. The player's wager is pushed if the dealer's sum is 16 and the player's sum is less than 22. An optional Double Up wager allows the player to increase the value of their primary wager without accepting any additional cards into their hand. The game rules can be modified to allow an automatic player win if their hand value is exactly 16 and the numerical sum of the dealer's hand is between 17-21. Optional Community and Poker-Style side wagers enable players to offset traditionally frustrating bad hands.

Abstract: A poker card game in which a dealer deals six cards to a player and six cards to the dealer. Three of the dealer's cards are exposed. The player may fold or continue with a play wager. Preferably, the play wager is 1× the ante wager. The dealer reveals the dealer's best five-card poker hand formed from any of the dealer's six cards, and the player reveals the player's best five-card poker hand formed from any of the player's six cards. The highest ranking hand wins. Preferably pays even money. Preferably, the dealer must qualify with an ace-king. Preferably allows a side wager that pays according to a pay table. Preferably played with one deck of cards. Includes card game method, device-readable storage medium containing device-executable code, and device-executable code stored on a device-readable storage medium.

Abstract: A dance card game to be played by one or more players comprising a deck of dance cards arranged in plurality of characters, each character illustrating a dance move, each said character of each card having plurality of “identifiers” and each character of each card having one or more of its identifiers in common with one or more other dance card, said dance cards arranged in several suits. The game comprises of each player picking several cards from the deck of dance cards and combining those cards to make a dance routine in a specified time limit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite deck of 100 playing cards. The composite deck includes five identical sets of cards, each set including the five highest ranked cards of 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace in four different suits, preferably each of the four suits of Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades. The composite deck includes five equal cards of each value and suit, which, when the deck is used in a Poker game, significantly increases the number of possible winning hands compared to any other deck used in conventional Poker games. It is a further advantage of the composite deck of the invention that unique and new winning hands are achievable, in particular winning hands with 5 cards of equal value, most importantly winning hands with 5 cards of equal value and/or suit. In a variant of the composite deck, at least one card is replaced with a Joker card.

Abstract: A method of playing a poker game where the Ocean community card is a true ocean card as it is sequentially dealt in order of play and remains down until the final round of betting.

Abstract: A modified blackjack card game using 6 or 8 decks of standard playing cards without jokers, Craps Blackjack is playing in a live casino game table and electronic device, such as computer, slot machine, video game, etc. and using two steps wagering strategies, win or lose at two initial cards and continue to play or fold the hand. It is a card game combined the playing method of craps, poker and blackjack. It provides optional side bets, dragon's head and phoenix's tail, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six and two main bets, Craps Blackjack and Any Craps.

Abstract: A method of playing a card game between a banker and players includes a standard deck of 53 cards having the standard four suits and a Joker. After each player places a bet, the dealer deals a hand of four cards to each player and the banker. Each of the hands are set into a two card top hand and a two card bottom hand. The hands are ranked with paired sets higher than unpaired sets. The banker has a copy win advantage so that the banker wins if the cards are the same ignoring suit. The ranking of paired sets is in the following order from highest to lowest: A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J, T-T, 9-9, 8-8, 7-7, 6-6, 5-5, 4-4, 3-3, 2-2.

Abstract: A deck of playing cards consists of a 60-card deck, with the deck consisting of 3 sets of Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and “10,” in each of the four suits: Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs.

Abstract: A method of playing a wagering card game for a single player or a number of players using standard playing cards having a standard rank and involving standard poker hand rankings or modified rankings for Three Card Poker® games. The players play a draw poker game against a dealer's stud poker hand. Each player's hand contains fewer cards than the dealer's hand, but the game is resolved with final hands of equal amount of cards. After an Ante wager, a plurality of cards is dealt to each player, and a plurality of cards is dealt to the dealer. Following predetermined house rules, each player then may decide to execute one or more of the following options: Surrender, Fold, make a Play bet, make a Double Down bet, or make a Draw bet. The player may or may not discard a card to make the Draw bet. After all of the players' hands have been fully executed, the dealer then adds one or more additional face-up cards to his hand.

Abstract: A method of playing a combined casino card game combining a standard casino card game with an optional In Between side bet that uses the same cards as played in the standard casino card game. A player makes an optional In Between side wager that the face value of at least one designated in between card falls in between two designated other cards according to the “rank order” 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A. If the in between card and two other cards all match, a triple match is paid out. The casino card game bet and the optional In Between side bet are separate and do not affect the play of the standard casino card game. Preferred embodiments include the In Between side bet combined with casino Blackjack, Baccarat, and Texas Hold'em.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and recording medium for controlling a game where a battle occurs in virtual space between one or more player characters acting according to manipulation of a player and one or more enemy characters acting independently of the manipulation of the player, including a command information storage for storing command information sets which includes a command to a player character and a plurality of numerical values, a card display for displaying a card showing a command included in the command information set or symbols related with the numerical values, and a command input acceptance unit to accept an input which selects the card displayed as well as one of the numerical values or symbols attached to the card.

Abstract: A method and system of generating, funding, and distributing multiple jackpots in a game such as poker, specifically such as Texas Hold 'Em. The jackpots may be separate, independent bad beat jackpots that pay out at different intervals due to having independent triggering conditions that have different odds of occurring. Preferably, the triggering condition for each jackpot may be a losing player's hand strength. The specific values for the triggering conditions may be chosen by random, may be generally evenly distributed over the number of jackpots, may be determined by an algorithm, e.g., one that relies on the odds of each hand occurring, or by another method. The jackpots may be funded from rakes collected from substantially every hand that is played—subject to certain prerequisites being established—such that each jackpot may be considered progressive in that it grows over time.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are described. Some examples include dealing cards, determining actions that must be taken by a player according to game rules, game rules that require certain actions to be taken in certain circumstances, determining outcomes of games according to poker rankings of hands of cards, awards to winning players, and/or other desired features. Further embodiments are described.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of playing a card game including a system of wagering on a card game against the house. The card game loosely combines the components of blackjack and poker in a three card game having various wagers paying out. The wagers may include an ante, play and insurance wager which pay out based upon either even money or by a pay table. Winning and losing hands are essentially based upon the game of blackjack with a hand hierarchy ranked in part on poker. The hand hierarchy ranks hands of 21 based on suites, straights, three of a kind and ace value card combinations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modified blackjack game between a dealer and at least one player. After placing initial wagers, three cards are dealt to each player and two cards dealt to the dealer. The game design allows players to either retain their initial three cards for play, or divide their cards into separate hands. Dividing cards into separate hands requires additional wagers. Players may use their initial three cards by standing or hitting to reach a hand that is higher than the dealers without exceeding twenty one, players may divide their three cards in any fashion that will provide them with the best opportunity to obtain a hand under the conventional rules of blackjack, players will have the choice to play to thirty, thirty-one, or thirty two, and players will have the option of surrendering their initial wager.

Abstract: The present invention provides a poker game playing method wherein multiple five-card hands from once previously shuffled 52-card poker deck can be played without increasing probabilities against a casino, while maintaining maximum entertainment value, and with immediate certainty of winning or losing. The method of the present invention maximizes entertainment value derived from the poker deck by rewarding a gambler with free five-card hands when there had been five-card hand winning combinations, wherein the rewarding free five-card hands are from the remaining un-played cards of said same poker deck, thus, without increasing chances against a casino or gaming house, and wherein a gambler may have a false impression of increased probabilities in his favor because of the rewarding free five-card hands, therefore increasing his gambling desire to start anew waging against newly shuffled 52-card poker decks.

Abstract: The present invention provides playing cards which allow a code to be read reliably from the cards shot out at various speeds. Playing cards (1) are provided with a code (2) not readable under a lighting condition of visible light, but readable under lighting conditions other than the visible light. The code (2) comprises four code elements (3) arranged in two rows and two columns and represents suit and rank information of the playing cards (1). The code elements (3) include at least two types of mark which differ in length in a column direction corresponding to a reading direction of the code (2). Row-by-row combinations of the code elements (3) arranged in a row direction orthogonal to the code reading direction can be identified uniquely and the suit and rank information of the playing cards (1) represented by the code (2) can be identified based on the row-by-row combinations of the code elements (3).

Abstract: The invention disclosed herein relates to a game that uses a plurality of specialized playing cards or tiles that entwines traditional symbols of Chinese origin (associated with the tile game of mahjong) together with numerically ranked and suited playing cards (associated with western-style card decks of the 52 playing card to a deck variety). Each inventive card or tile has displayed on one of its faces a symbol of Chinese origin, a numerical rank, and a suit of French origin. The symbol of Chinese origin is selected from the group consisting of a wan, a bamboo, a ring, a dragon, or a wind; whereas the numerical rank is selected the group consisting of a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, and king; and whereas the suit is selected from the group consisting of a spade, a heart, a club, and a diamond.

Abstract: Pai Gow poker wagering card game is played by: a) Players wagering on a Pai Gow game; b) Players placing an optional wager against a pay table on a specified color combination of playing cards in a separate game that uses only residual cards from the Pai Gow poker game; c) dealing seven-card hands from a set of cards to six player positions and one dealer position, leaving at least three residual cards that have not been dealt to players or the dealer as residual cards; d) resolving the game of Pai Gow poker; e) comparing playing cards in the residual cards to the specific color combination wagered on in step b); and f) paying players who have placed the optional wager when the color combination in the residual cards matches the color combination wagered on in step b) and wherein playing cards are provided as either physical playing cards on a gaming table or are provided as virtual playing cards from a processor having an associated random number generator.

Abstract: A method for playing a game, involving the steps of determining a combination number; dealing to at least one player at least three cards from a deck to make a hand, the deck having at least one group of cards sequentially numbered from one to thirteen; and providing a reward to the player for each combination the player makes of the cards equaling the combination number. A typical combination number is 10, or multiples of 10.

Abstract: A conventional deck of fifty-two playing cards is modified by the addition of at least one extra card which can be of any of the conventional card ranks, which can be of a fifth suit or a duplicate of one of the conventional cards and which is preferably an Ace. This is additional card can also be of any rank of the conventional cards, but can having a suit designation of all of the suits, and is preferably an Ace of all of the suits. This modified deck of playing cards is used to play video poker.

Abstract: Each of fifty-two playing cards has upper and lower portions when the card is in a selected orientation. Each card has a first face side with two numbers visible on its upper portion and the same two numbers visible on its lower portion. The two numbers are vertically oriented with respect to one another, are arranged in an identical order on the card's upper and lower portions, and are right side up on the card's upper portion and upside down on the card's lower portion. Each the two numbers is between 1 and 13, and is red or black.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a card game in which a set of rules for the card game require a player of the game to perform an action in a particular set of circumstances. For example, in a poker game, rules of the poker game may require a human player to bet in a particular set of circumstances.

Abstract: A casino-style game includes a deck of cards in which each card has a value, and the value or rank of a player's hand is determined by the cumulative value of each card in the hand. The deck also includes one or more power cards that differ from conventional cards in the deck at least insomuch that if two competing hands have the same value, but one hand includes the power card, the hand having the power card will be deemed the winning hand.

Abstract: A method of playing a wagering card game for a single player or a number of players using standard playing cards having a standard rank and involving standard poker hand rankings or modified rankings for Three Card Poker® games. The players play a draw poker game against a dealer's stud poker hand. Each player's hand contains fewer cards than the dealer's hand, but the game is resolved with final hands of equal amount of cards. After an Ante wager, a plurality of cards is dealt to each player, and a plurality of cards is dealt to the dealer. Following predetermined house rules, each player then may decide to execute one or more of the following options: Surrender, Fold, make a Play bet, make a Double Down bet, or make a Draw bet. The player may or may not discard a card to make the Draw bet. After all of the players' hands have been fully executed, the dealer then adds one or more additional face-up cards to his hand.

Abstract: The present invention includes a variety of methods for wagering upon one or more positions of a symbol matrix and issuing awards based upon the number of symbols in the symbol matrix matching each of the symbols displayed in the wagered upon symbol positions. In a preferred embodiment, players may wager upon any number of the available symbol positions and collect awards for matching each symbol appearing in a wagered upon symbol position with 2 or more other symbols in the symbol matrix.

Abstract: A modified Blackjack game between a dealer and one or more players that incorporates at least one side bet available to each player. The method comprises: offering the players at least one side bet having an outcome dependant upon whether a card yet to be dealt will belong to a player-selectable subset of a set of predetermined traits of the card (such as the identifying color, traditional suit, or ranking); accepting from the players any wagers and selections of the player-selectable subsets; dealing a card to each player and the dealer from a deck of cards, wherein each card composing the deck comprises at least one predetermined traits; for each accepted side bet, determining whether the value of the predetermined trait of the relevant card belongs to the player-selected subset; for each accepted side bet, determining whether there is an overriding losing condition present; for each successful side bet, paying the player a predetermined payout; and, finally, completing the Blackjack game.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a game of poker in which at least some player actions are fixed by game rules. For example, in some embodiments, a first set of cards displayed on a video screen is dealt to a first player of a poker game. The first player is a person. A second set of cards is dealt to a second player of the poker game. One first action is determined based on a set of game rules and based on the first set of cards. The one first action is automatically performed on behalf of the first player. One second action is determined based on the set of game rules and based on the second set of cards. An amount to be awarded to a winning player of the poker game is determined.

Abstract: A side wager for blackjack that allows the player to win when the player loses a hand that the player would have expected to win. If the player is initially dealt a good hand, e.g., 20, and the player still loses, then the player can be rewarded by collecting a “bad beat” award.

Abstract: A casino-style blackjack card game that offers players the option of placing wagers against the occurrence of their hand value exceeding 21 (commonly known as busting) on the next card drawn when they have a hard card count of 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 or 20.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing a trick-taking card game for two or more players that includes two decks of playing cards: a numbered character card deck and a modifier card deck. Each player's goal is to play a card, or combinations of cards, that is/are higher in numerical rank value than their opponents' cards in order to win the trick in each round of play. Players can improve their chance of winning the round by playing, in their turn and in conjunction with one character card, one or more modifying cards that they possess in their hand to increase the numerical rank value of their played character card or decrease the numerical rank value of the other players' cards. Tricks are collected for points in multiple hands comprising a game. The player with the greatest number of points at the end of the game is declared the winner.