Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186681 | Method of using decks of playing cards A method of using a deck of playing cards that has a different number of cards than is needed for a game. If the number of cards needed is less than the number of cards in a deck, one deck is used. If the number of cards needed is greater than the number of cards in... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8181963 | Role-playing game There is provided a game having a number of game pieces, each of which has a game piece level value. The game has a game level value, and players select game pieces such that a total of the game piece level values is less than or equal to the game level value. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181962 | Casino wagering game with bonus suits A casino wagering game based on the card game of thirty-one. Each player is dealt three cards and the goal is to get as high of a hand as possible. Each player is allowed the option to replace one selected card. A bonus suit can be determined randomly, and if the pl... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177235 | Bonus game involving card range wagering A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a bonus parlay wager for a wagering game with a bonus round. The bonus round in the wagering game is activated only based upon certain conditions. The player can earn a top payout for the bonus parlay w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8141877 | Method of playing a modified poker based wagering game with side wager Some embodiments are directed to a method of playing a wagering game which comprises the steps of: receiving an ante wager from a participating player; delivering a partial hand of playing cards to the participating player; providing a community group of playing car... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8128091 | Casino poker games A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to provide a player versus dealer poker game which allows the dealer to raise based on the contents of the dealers unrevealed hand. The player can then choose to match the dealer's raise or fold. Then, both the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128092 | Game A game having a plurality of game cards, a plurality of targets, a plurality of objects; and a launcher for launching at least one of the objects at one of the plurality of targets is disclosed. The game also includes at least one special game card, the at least one... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8096556 | Method for playing a wagering game A method of playing a card wagering game. Each player places an ante. A first number of cards is dealt face down to each player and a dealer to form a player hand and a dealer hand. Players view their cards and decide whether to continue play or surrender. Players t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096555 | Method of conducting a wagering game with continuous depletion A wagering game, such as Ban-Nag or Blackjack, includes defining a finite set of cards. The player plays multiple sequential game hands by placing a wager, receiving cards from the finite set cumulatively excluding any cards previously dealt, playing the game hand t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8079595 | Card game with counting Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074992 | Bad beat blackjack 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 “b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8066285 | Wagering method and apparatus based on a numerical total A wagering game that deals a hand to a player and a dealer. A numerical total of the player's hand is compared to a numerical total of the dealer's hand in order to determine which hand, the player's or the dealer's, is higher (and hence the winner). Before reaching... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8038154 | Method to play a poker game 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 imme... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020872 | Blackjack and poker game combination A gaming method is disclosed and comprises the following steps, which need not necessarily be performed in the exact order: allowing a player to play a first poker game using at least two card representations; allowing the player to play a blackjack game using card ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8002281 | Methods and devices for playing a modified baccarat game Aspects of the present inventions concerns methods and devices for playing a game with predetermined rules using at least one standard deck of 52 actual or virtual playing cards, wherein at least two but no more than three cards are dealt to a first hand, at least t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7992873 | Card game A card game includes a deck of cards used, for example, to play craps, poker, or any combination thereof. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7976025 | Domino roulette Domino wagering games are disclosed in which a player or players place a wager on which domino will be selected, the domino being selected with a domino roulette style wheel or by being revealed after selection from a boneyard. The wagers are based on a bet type as ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7954821 | World cup of blackjack A method of playing a casino table wagering game of blackjack has the steps of: at least one player and preferably at least two players placing individual wagers on an underlying blackjack game; an initial 2-card common player hand is dealt; an initial 2-card dealer... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950664 | System and device for determining personality type A device and method for determining the personality type of a person or a group of persons in the tradition of the Enneagram. The device includes a number of cards and each of the cards has at least a color band, an image and a group of words, which collectively ide... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7942418 | Card game with counting Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7914003 | Gaming devices and methods of playing card games with indicator of cards played from previous hands Gaming devices and methods of playing games wherein an indication of the cards which have already been discarded or dealt is displayed for a player to view prior to making a decision. One embodiment is directed to a gaming device comprising a video display which is ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7909327 | Poker game A system and method for playing a poker game. The system is implemented either through a software application or through a physical game environment. The system integrates a card elimination table which has a range of attack elements and range of removable elements.... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900926 | Low/max card game method and apparatus A card game method and apparatus is played with a standard deck of cards and a game table having a dealer area and a plurality of player areas. The dealer deals sets of cards to each of a plurality of players and to the dealer itself. An equal number of cards is dea... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7883092 | Energy cured coating An energy cured coating is described that may be used in numerous applications. In one embodiment, for instance, the coating can be used as a seal coat layer in a gaming card. In particular, the coating can be used to protect a hidden printed layer that is covered b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7857314 | System and method for playing a table and electronic card game The present invention is directed to a card game in which at least five cards are dealt to at least one player position in which the player may have made a wager. The player must make at least one wager corresponding to one or more of the player positions. To initia... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7845641 | Press-your-luck challenge A method of hosting a press-your-luck challenge includes receiving a stake from a player and iteratively beginning phases of the press-your-luck challenge. Each phase of the press-your-luck challenge comprises dealing an active subset of game items from a set of gam... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845642 | Pick-it poker A multi-stage card game includes stages at which each player selects which unrevealed cards are to be played. In one implementation, bets are received for at least some stages of a multi-stage poker-like game. Cards are dealt into an unrevealed dealer hand and an un... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845643 | Multi-game deck of playing cards 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 vertical... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7832731 | Three-card game without poker ranking A method of playing a wagering game has at least one player placing an Ante wager to compete against a dealer in a playing card game; the at least one player receiving a player initial hand of multiple playing cards of number n and evaluating the playing cards accor... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7806408 | Table with computer for playing card selection game One embodiment of the invention is a method of playing computerized card games against real players at a table. The cards games are usually variations of poker, where the quality of the players' hands is due to skill and strategy rather than the luck of the draw. Pl... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7775524 | Card game A card game includes a deck of cards used, for example, to play craps, poker, or any combination thereof. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7748714 | Casino card game A card game and method of playing the card game is disclosed. The card game is premised on the game of Texas Hold'em and pits a player against one or more virtual players. Initially, the player places a blind wager and then the player and multiple virtual players ar... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7740245 | Method of presenting and playing game where winning hand triggers enhanced award opportunity in subsequent game In a method of presenting or playing a wagering game, if a winning outcome is received, a first award is awarded and one or more awards associated with one or more winnings outcomes for the game are then enhanced for potential award in a subsequent game or games. In... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7731195 | Video poker game having second draw option A method of conducting a video poker game is disclosed. The method comprises offering players an option to draw cards a second time in response to an initial hand meeting certain pre-established requirements. For example, if an initial hand having five cards include... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7726655 | Games of chance with player-specified elements A game to be modified in accordance with the invention involves a first random outcome and a second random outcome that are combined according to game rules to produce a game outcome. The game is administered by receiving a player request for a specific entry, the s... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722048 | Mini-hold 'em games A playing card wagering game has a player hand compete against another player hand according to three-card poker rank or a player hand compete against a dealer hand. At least one or two players place a first wager on the card wagering game and an optional second sid... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722047 | System and method for playing a game including a mortgaging option A method and apparatus of playing a game provides a player with at least one option for playing at least one round of the game in accordance with at least one advantage and/or disadvantage. For example, a player may agree to play a current round of play and/or at le... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7717429 | Card game with counting Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic. ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7708280 | Poker game with variable payouts based on probabilities of winning A poker game wherein conditions for a player's hand(s) and a dealer's hand(s) are different such that the player may have different probabilities of winning than the dealer. Payouts are adjusted such that the player's hands are disadvantaged compared to the dealer (... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699318 | Wagering method including a reverse bet A method of wagering for games where there can be more than one player hand dealt and each player hand is compared to a Dealer hand. The method of wagering adds an option to wager that the Dealer hand will beat a particular player hand, a wager that the Dealer hand ... | 04/20/2010 |
