Card game

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of playing a card game for two or more players. In some embodiments, the method comprises setting up the game and propagating the game. Setting up the game comprises dealing to each player a set of cards from the deck of cards to create a personal pile, wherein a first player to dispose of the personal pile wins the game. The steps of propagating the game comprise having a player constructing a set of hand cards by drawing cards from the draw pile, starting a counting pile with a seed card having a numerical value of 1 or 12, and building on the counting pile by placing a building card onto the counting pile, wherein the building card is taken from the player's personal pile or hand cards.

1 . A method of playing a card game for two or more players; the method comprises setting up the game and propagating the game, wherein setting up the game comprises:
 (a) obtaining a deck of cards, wherein each card in the deck has a numerical value of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12;   (b) dealing to each player a set of cards from the deck of cards to create a personal pile, wherein only the top card of the personal pile is visible to all players, wherein a first player to dispose of the personal pile according to the below step (f) wins the game;   (c) forming a draw pile from the cards remaining in the deck of cards that are not dealt to the players;   
     wherein propagating the game comprises having a player:
 (d) constructing a set of hand cards by drawing cards from the draw pile; 
 (e) starting a counting pile with a seed card having a numerical value of 1 or 12; 
 (f) building on the counting pile by placing a building card onto the counting pile, wherein the building card is taken from the player's personal pile or hand cards, wherein the building card is the next consecutive bigger numerical value card if the seed card has a numerical value of 1, wherein the building card is the next consecutive smaller numerical value card if the seed card has a numerical value of 12; 
 (g) terminating the player's turn by forming a reserve pile from the cards remaining from the set of hand cards (if the player has any remaining cards in the set of hand cards), wherein the termination occurs when the player cannot start the counting pile, or cannot build on the counting pile, or voluntarily terminates his turn; wherein the cards in the reserve pile can be used by the player for building the counting pile on the next round of play for the player; 
 
     wherein upon the termination of the player's turn, a next player repeats step (d) through (g) above to propagate the card game. 
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the deck of cards comprises a wild card which is deemed to have any numerical value from 1 to 12. 
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1  wherein in step (b), each player is dealt with 20 to 30 cards for creating the personal pile. 
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the set of hand cards comprises five cards. 
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 1  wherein in step (f) if the player disposes all of the cards in the set of hand cards, then the player proceeds to construct another set of hand cards by drawing from the draw pile. 
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 1  wherein two or more players form a team, a first player of the team may play with any of his teammate's personal and reserve piles in addition to his own; wherein during the first player's play, his teammate must remain silent, and wherein the first team to dispose of all the team's personal pile into the counting pile wins the game. 
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the deck of cards comprises 190 cards.