Abstract: The present invention provides a deck of double denomination playing cards, there being 1,378 cards in the deck, with each card having a front playing face divided into a first playing field and a second playing field whereby the deck has a total of 1,378 first playing fields and 1,378 second playing fields, with each playing field containing one of four non-denominational suits selected from the group comprising: Hearts; Clubs; Diamonds; and Spades, with each playing field further containing one of thirteen value designations selected from the group comprising: 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; Jack; Queen, King; and Ace, whereby each playing field contains a said non-denominational suit and a said value designation. In the deck the first and a second (e.g. ‘top’ and ‘bottom’) playing field of any of the double denomination cards are separate entities in their own right.

Abstract: The construction of a set of playing cards comprising a group of single-valued cards and a group of double-valued cards is disclosed. In one embodiment, the power of a select group of conventionally high value cards is shifted to a select group of conventionally low value cards. Methods of using the disclosed sets of playing cards for increasing the probability of a winning hand in a game of cards are also described.

Abstract: A variation of a poker game is shown, with a unique deck of cards. The deck inserts two additional values (11 and 12), and un-suits two values (10s and 11s). The play is substantially equivalent to that of Texas Hold 'Em except that the unsuited cards cannot be used to make flushes or straight flushes, and both hole cards must be used to make a straight, flush, or straight flush.

Abstract: A playing card includes a suit indicator indicating an entity to be promoted, and a ranking within the suit indicator that indicates an object associated with the entity.

Abstract: A customer information card game is disclosed. A set of game cards is provided, each game card having a face and a reverse side, each game card having printed thereon a plurality of types of customer information indicators and a customer loyalty indicator. Methods are provided for playing a game using the game cards.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed an originally designed card game in which letters in combination with negative and positive numbers create variables which allows a player to create games from edge linking puzzles, to board play games to creating games in similarity to the standard American 52 card poker deck. Other-play enhancing features such as deck series shaded box identification and custom design features allows expanded and universal recognition and understanding of the game by players and onlookers from any nationality or language comprehension capacity. This card game invention is able to exist in a physical hand played medium and in a digital video game played medium.

Abstract: A playing card deck particularly suited for the play of the card game of blackjack where indicia that is irrelevant to play of the game has been eliminated to facilitate play and increase the pace of play of the game. The invention comprises a deck of fifty two playing cards with the cards of the deck having no indications for suits and having four cards each with value indications of ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine, with the remaining sixteen cards having value indications of ten.

Abstract: A game including game pieces and rules for playing a game for a plurality of players, the goal of which is to score the most points by correctly guessing the location of hidden items. The invention provides multiple coverable items, multiple sets of markers, and multiple shells. Multiple coverable items may be hidden under multiple shells in a manner such that multiple sets of markers may be used to guess the location of the corresponding coverable items by stacking a marker onto the corresponding shell.

Abstract: A set of cards for playing a card game is described. Each of said cards is printed with indicia essential for the playing of the game and one or more of said cards is printed with such indicia towards a central region of the card, that is inwardly disposed from the perimeter edge. In accordance with the invention, one or more of said cards in the set is provided with one or more apertures in predetermined locations within said central region to allow at least some of the indicia printed in the central region of a first card to be seen through the apertures of second and optionally further cards when said second and further cards are superposed over said first card.

Abstract: Cards of thirteen kinds ranging from A to K that belong to a certain class among four classes: spade, club, diamond and heart are turned over so as to exhibit the obverse in the order of the card identification alphanumeric letter. By doing so, a character performs a certain series of actions as far as the final card or a card in the middle. Therefore, the player's will to collect cards can be further invoked.

Abstract: Collectible cards and a multi-participant competitive turn-based game played therewith. The game characters are drawn from a story and certain properties of the game cards are activated by the participant in accordance with an algebraic equation, providing, thereby, a literary and mathematical learning experience.

Abstract: Cards of thirteen kinds ranging from A to K that belong to a certain class among four classes: spade, club, diamond and heart are turned over so as to exhibit the obverse in the order of the card identification alphanumeric letter. By doing so, a character performs a certain series of actions as far as the final card or a card in the middle. Therefore, the player's will to collect cards can be further invoked.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic side bet progressive jackpot gaming table apparatus including a color-coded player's banking center which includes a coin slot an electronic button means, a digital display means. The apparatus also includes a dealer key pad having a plurality of electronic button means for the dealer to suitably conduct a side bet progressive jackpot game. The invention furthermore relates to a method of operating the electronic side bet progressive jackpot gaming table apparatus. In addition, methods of playing casino Blackjack games employing an inventive deck of same color-coded playing cards are disclosed.

Abstract: A method of playing a card game is provided that includes providing a deck of playing cards and dealing a hand of cards to each player on each team. Each player is allowed to draw a card from a face-up discard pile or from a face-down set of cards, lay down a predetermined set of cards, and discard a card from the player's hand. Each round is ended when a player has no cards remaining in his hand, at which time each team's score for the round is determined. Each set of cards required to be laid down to end the game is predetermined, with each team having differing sets of cards required to be laid down to end the game. The game is ended when a team has laid down each predetermined set of cards required to be laid down to end the game, at which time the winning team is determined by the team with the highest score.

Abstract: A collectible card game that represents the unwritten rules of political, economic and popular culture is disclosed. The game is designed for play by three to six players. Larger groups are accommodated by additional decks of cards. To play the game, each player must adopt fictitious roles based on predetermined demographic characteristics. In the preferred embodiment, these roles are based on a generational affiliation and a place of residence. The accumulation of card points is dependent upon these generational and residential choices. The game has a card holder and a deck of playing cards. The card holder is designed to hold four different piles of cards: the Pick Up Pile, the Recycling Bin, the Litigation Fund, and the 501(c)(3) Pile. The deck of cards is composed of three different categories of cards: three-value cards, policy cards, and disaster cards.

Abstract: A method for assessing the readiness skills of a child between the ages of two and six years is disclosed. To assess the child's skills, a set of specially designed cards is provided. Each card displays one or more predetermined symbols. The cards are displayed to the child according to a predefined protocol. As the cards are displayed, a testing specialist asks the child questions about each card and records the child's responses. The child's responses are then scored to assess his or her skill level. The cards are organized into color-coded subsets. Each subset can be used to test a child's mastery of a certain task. In addition, the cards can be asymmetrically-shaped to facilitate sorting and presentation. The unique design of the cards permits the testing specialist to quickly screen young children with possible learning disabilities.

Abstract: Specially made combination cards for learning and practicing the optimal decisions which arise in the game of blackjack as played in casinos. The face of each card is an overlapping combination of cards found in a standard deck of playing cards. They are presented so as to resemble the way they look to the player when dealt with both initial cards dealt face down or face up. A first card portion (11) appears at the upper left-most edge. A second card portion (12) appears to overlap the first one. Each of the composite cards has the same combination in separate sections (10 and 10) presented in opposing orientations so that they can be readily read in either direction. The back of each card is either blank or patterned similarly to those used in casinos. No information about the front of the card can be deduced or inferred from the back of the card.

Abstract: A playing card deck for playing blackjack or casino twenty-one. The cards preferably have diagonally opposing primary and secondary corners. All cards in the deck have indicia or markings at the primary corners which indicate the nature of the card (suit and card type). The deck has two groupings of cards. The secondary corners of the first group do not indicate the specific nature or count of the card. The secondary corners of the second group, such as aces, have secondary indicia. This allows a dealer to selectively peek at the secondary corner of his face-down card to determine whether a blackjack hand exists. If blackjack does not exist, then the dealer does not know the face-down card and cheating or unintentional disclosure is prevented.

Abstract: A playing card deck for playing blackjack or casino twenty-one. The cards preferably have diagonally opposing primary and secondary corners. All cards in the deck have indicia or markings at the primary corners which indicate the nature of the card (suit and card type). The deck has two groupings of cards. The secondary corners of the first group do not indicate the specific nature or count of the card. The secondary corners of the second group, such as aces, have secondary indicia. This allows a dealer to selectively peek at the secondary corner of his face-down card to determine whether a blackjack hand exists. If blackjack does not exist, then the dealer does not know the face-down card and cheating or unintentional disclosure is prevented.

Abstract: A deck of 52 playing cards each of which displays two randomly paired denominations at least one of which is no lower than 8 and of contrasting suits (4) (6). A player selects either denomination for use in composing a hand of cards for any game. One of each card's two denominations (4) always bears a code means (8) that designates particular denominations only and all others marked with the same code as the only 52 denominations that form a complete deck of single denomination cards of the prior art. Single denomination games may be played with a double denomination deck when only the coded denominations are employed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a deck of rectangular playing cards usually having two substantially parallel long edges and two substantially parallel short edges, substantially all cards in the deck having a front symmetrically designed with respect to both short edges, to minimize cheating by signalling with asymmetric cards. The front is usually designed to be symmetrical with respect to the short axis, and preferably the long axis as well, of each card. Generally, the deck includes at least 52 cards, thirteen in each of the four standard suits, spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. Frequently the symmetry is obtained by the use of at least one "double-pip" in the front of the card. A "double-pip" consists of a single pip of a suit having asymmetric pips, the pip placed generally end to end with its mirror image to create a single symmetric rather than asymmetric pip of the suit. Sometimes "reversed pips" are also used. A "reversed pip" is merely a pip placed upside-down on the front rather than right side up.

Abstract: A card game which includes a plurality of cards. Each of the plurality of cards has a front side and a back side. The front side has a first identification information section printed thereon. A first name information section is printed below the identification information section on the front side of the card. The first identification information section has information corresponding to said first name information section on another of the cards. The back side of the card has a second name information section printed thereon. The second name information section has information corresponding to the first identification information section. The back side of the card also has a leader information section at a different location than the second name information section. The leader information section has information corresponding to the second name information section on another of the plurality of cards.

Abstract: Disclosed is a deck of rectangular playing cards usually having two substantially parallel long edges and two substantially parallel short edges, substantially all cards in the deck having a front symmetrically designed with respect to both short edges, to minimize cheating by signalling with asymmetric cards. The front is usually designed to be symmetrical with respect to the short axis, and preferably the long axis as well, of each card. Generally, the deck includes at least 52 cards, thirteen in each of the four standard suits, spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. Frequently the symmetry is obtained by the use of at least one "double-pip" in the front of the card. A "double-pip" consists of a single pip of a suit having asymmetric pips, the pip placed generally end to end with its mirror image to create a single symmetric rather than asymmetric pip of the suit. Sometimes "reversed pips" are also used. A "reversed pip" is merely a pip placed upside-down on the front rather than right side up.