Domino card game played within container

Abstract

A domino card game having a plurality of playing cards and a container-playing field with a removable cover. The, cards are marked with two sets of pips in the manner of domino tiles with numerical designations on the upper left-hand corner of each card. The container-playing filed serves as the playing field for a domino-like card game, the sides of the container protecting the game from disturbances. The cards are played by two to four players, by placing their cards in turn, within the container by covering at least a set of pips of the previously played cards remaining visible within the container. The container with lid stores the playing cards and the sides of the container protect the cards from wind and other disturbances during the game.

I claim:  
     
         1 . A domino-card game played within a container comprising: 
 a deck of domino cards;    a back side of each card having indistinguishable markings;    a face side of each card;    a pair of pip values, the first pip value marked at an upper half-side of the face side and the second pip value marked at the lower half-side of the face side;    the pip values corresponding to a set of tile dominos;    the container having an upper rectangular opening sufficiently wide to receive the playing cards and sufficiently long to receive two playing cards placed end-to-end and sufficiently deep to receive the deck;    a lid to open and close the upper opening;    the game played by matching sets of pips of a played card to sets of pips of exposed previously played card, the played card placed interlockingly vertical above said a matched previously played card within the container, above the matched set if pips.    
     
     
         2 . The game as claimed in  1  further comprising: 
 a first set of numbers designating said pair of pip values of said card, marked near the top left-corner portion of the upper half-area;  
 a second set of numbers designating said pair of pip values marked upside down at the bottom right-corner portion of the lower half-area, the second set of numbers having 180 degree rotationally symmetrical about an axis through the center of the card with the first set of numbers.  
 
     
     
         3 . The game as claimed in  1  wherein the domino fashion provides for the cards to be distributed said players; 
 a first card is placed within said container by the player having the highest value pair of pips in said deck;  
 a next and subsequent cards placed within said container in an order by players able to match the domino pips of the previously placed card, the cards placed above the previously placed card covering at least one of the half-areas of the previously placed card.  
 
     
     
         4 . The game as claimed in  1 , wherein the pip values range from naught to six, inclusive.  
     
     
         5 . The game as claimed in  1 , wherein the pip values range from naught to nine, inclusive.