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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404561 | Lemonade stand playing card game and method A Lemonade Stand playing card game has a box; playing cards and a set of rules and a die, the playing cards including financial cards which constitute the majority of the playing cards and which teach the value of money in business, timing cards which constitute the... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7364163 | Big money playing card game and method A Big Money playing card game has a box; playing cards and a set of rules and a die, the playing cards including financial cards which constitute the majority of the playing cards and which teach the value of money in business, timing cards which constitute the mino... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7273213 | Customer information card game 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 a... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7258343 | Card game and methods of play This invention relates to a card game comprised of at least one warrior card, at least one technique card, at least one power card, and at least one field card. This invention also includes a method of playing said card game, which involves the use of a battle binde... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7234701 | Riposte sword-fighting card game A card game designed to simulate movements and activities between two combatants. The object of the game is to force all the other players to lose their game points before the winner does. The game uses a unique set of playing cards each containing one of three poss... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7066850 | Method of scoring a sporting event A method for scoring a sporting event that offers all participants an opportunity to receive an award is described. A number of categories and a number of places to be awarded within those categories is determined. These numbers are multiplied and the sum is compare... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6843724 | Electronic amusement device offering secondary game of chance and method for operating same An electronic amusement device and a method for operating the device are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a slot machine server controls a secondary game of chance played at a client slot machine. The server receives a player identifier correspon... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6769691 | Apparatus for financial investment education and entertainment The present invention 10 discloses a game to be played upon a board 12 wherein a plurality of spaces 14 are sequentially placed around the perimeter of the board. The spaces 14 comprise a plurality of property deed spaces with associated ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6692353 | Electronic amusement device offering secondary game of chance and method for operating same An electronic amusement device and a method for operating the device are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a slot machine server controls a secondary game of chance played at a client slot machine. The server receives a player identifie... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6623010 | Method of building a deck of collectible cards The method of the invention provides a process for a player to choose cards, for that player's "playing deck," from potentially hundreds of collected cards. According to the invention, each collectible card is assigned to a particular class. The compositi... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6497410 | Trading cards for an investment game, and game and method thereof A collectible trading card, investment game using a set of trading cards, and a method of playing the investment game designed to raise awareness in the concepts of investing in the equities market. Each trading card features a unique publicly traded corp... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6375466 | Method for teaching economics, management and accounting A method for teaching economics and related practices provides a "virtual enterprise" in which various economic transactions are made. Participants or "stakeholders" in the teaching session take roles of various corporate, government, and other officials,... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6364765 | Electronic amusement device offering secondary game of chance and method for operating same An electronic amusement device and a method for operating the device are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a slot machine server controls a secondary game of chance played at a client slot machine. The server receives a player identifie... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6247698 | Wine region board and card game A board game apparatus upon which a card game is played contains a plurality of principal areas representing either a) international wine-producing continents in the world or, b) districts within a wine region depending upon whether the game version is a)... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6234485 | Card game and method of playing card game The present invention provides a card game and method of playing a card game which enables a player to purchase an option to buy a bonus card to better the player's hand. The method of playing the game includes a dealer accepting an optional insurance fee... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6017034 | Collectable card game A collectable card game that represents the unwitten rules of politics, 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 p... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5092596 | Professional sports strategy game A parlor game is described which combines the strategic decision-making of managing a sports team with the financial management of owning a professional sports franchise. A baseball game is played using a wheel which is spun to simulate a pitch, and a bal... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5076588 | Card game based on decision theory The present invention entails a card game comprising a set of cards. Each card bears a plurality of states of nature which can be uniquely realized by a chance device, a plurality of probabilities that each of the state of nature is realized and a plurali... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4979750 | Trading property card game with grouping valued score cards and markers This invention relates to card games in which cards are traded and in which scores that depend on the combination of cards held by a player are tallied by means of score cards and markers. The score cards have charts with values and cross-reference multip... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4437670 | Card game A card game for a plurality of players includes two decks of cards having identical playing surfaces and visually distinguishable decorative non-playing back surfaces. The game also includes game tokens and game token containers. In setting the game up, o... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4378942 | Trading game The trading game simulates a highly liquid market. The game employs tokens and various "Bull" and "Bear" cards to establish a settlement price for various trades. The players create the market prices for each trade during the rounds of play and record the... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4008527 | Educational accounting device A plurality of transaction cards adapted for use with an educational accounting device are disclosed. Each card bears accounting indicia on its upper and lower portions. A pair of numeral-bearing disks are mounted adjacent to the upper and lower portions ... | 02/22/1977 |
