Abstract: An interactive playing card for use in a card game. The interactive playing card has a front face and a back face. The front face has a suit card value and a face card value. A readable data component attached in some way to the playing card maintains a suit card elements value and is configured to send the information in the readable data component to a display. The display will show the suit card element value and the face card element value to a viewer.

Abstract: A method for verifying information comprises collecting information to be verified from a plurality of different sources wherein at least two of the sources provide information in formats which differ from one another, modifying the collected information to conform to a common format, storing the modified information in a common data base, and providing the stored information.