Playing cards with distinctive suits

Abstract

A playing card deck with fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits, being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. The thirteen cards of each suit are sequentially numbered face cards, two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and, an ace with the following distinctive color arrangement: a first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color; a second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a red color with a pink screened background, whether partial or whole; a third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color; and a fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a black color with a grey screened background, whether partial or whole. An alternative distinctive color arrangement being: a first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background; a second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a white color against a red background in a form commonly known as reversed solid, a third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and a fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a white color against a black background. A second alternative color arrangement being a first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background; a second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers in a border being a white color against a red background, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers on the card face and boxed by the border being a red color on a white background; a third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and a fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers in a border being a white color against a black background, with all markings, club shapes and numbers on the card face and boxed by the border being a black color on a white background.

1 . A playing card deck comprising fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits of thirteen cards each, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, said thirteen cards of each suit each bearing a shape pertaining to its respective suit, and each of said thirteen cards of each suit having sequentially numbered face cards with numbers two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace, said cards having the following distinctive color arrangement:
 a first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color; a second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a red color with a pink screened background;   a third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color; and   a fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a black color with a grey screened background.   
   
   
       2 . A playing card deck comprising fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits of thirteen cards each, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, said thirteen cards of each suit each bearing a shape pertaining to its respective suit, and each of said thirteen cards of each suit having sequentially numbered face cards with numbers two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace, said cards having the following distinctive color arrangement:
 first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color with a pink screened background;   second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a red color;   third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color with a grey screened background; and   fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a black color.   
   
   
       3 . The playing card deck of  claim 1  wherein the pink screened background of the second suit covers less than the entire background of the cards in said suit and the grey screened background of the fourth suit covers less than the entire background of the cards in said suit. 
   
   
       4 . The playing card deck of  claim 2  wherein the pink screened background of the first suit covers less than’ the entire background of the cards in said suit and the grey screened background of the third suit covers less than the entire background of the cards in said suit. 
   
   
       5 . The playing card deck of  claim 1  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       6 . The playing card deck of  claim 2  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       7 . The playing card deck of  claim 3  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       8 . The playing card deck of  claim 4  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       9 . A playing card deck comprising fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits of thirteen cards each, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, said thirteen cards of each suit each bearing a shape pertaining to its respective suit, and each of said thirteen cards of each suit having sequentially numbered face cards with numbers two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace, said cards having the following distinctive color arrangement:
 a first suit, hearts or diamonds, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a second suit, hearts or diamonds, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a white color against a red background in a form commonly known as reversed solid;   a third suit, spades or clubs, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and   a fourth suit, spades or clubs, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a white color against a black background.   
   
   
       10 . A playing card deck comprising fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits of thirteen cards each, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, said thirteen cards of each suit each bearing a shape pertaining to its respective suit, and each of said thirteen cards of each suit having sequentially numbered face cards with, numbers two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace, said cards having the following distinctive color arrangement:
 a first suit, hearts or diamonds, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a second suit, hearts or diamonds, with all markings, shapes and numbers in a border being a white color against a red background, with all markings, shapes and numbers on the card face and boxed by the border being a red color on a white background;   a third suit, spades or clubs, with all markings, shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and   a fourth suit, spades or clubs, with all markings, shapes and numbers in a border being a white color against a black background, with all markings, shapes and numbers on the card face and boxed by the border being a black color on a white background.   
   
   
       11 . The playing card deck of  claim 9  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       12 . The playing card deck of  claim 10  wherein the playing card deck is provided as an electronic depiction or simulation of a playing card deck. 
   
   
       13 . A plurality of playing cards forming a deck, said plurality of cards including four suits, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, comprising:
 a first group of heart-suited cards with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a second group of diamond-suited cards with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a white color on a non-white background;   a third group of spade-suited cards with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and   a fourth group of club-suited cards with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a white color on a non-white background.   
   
   
       14 . The plurality of cards of  claim 13  wherein said second group of diamond-suited cards is on a red background. 
   
   
       15 . The plurality of cards of  claim 13  wherein said fourth group of club-suited cards is on a black background. 
   
   
       16 . A plurality of playing cards forming a deck, said plurality of cards including four suits, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, comprising:
 a first group of diamond-suited cards with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a second group of heart-suited cards with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a white color on a non-white background;   a third group of club-suited cards with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and   a fourth group of spade-suited cards with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a white color on a non-white background.   
   
   
       17 . The plurality of cards of  claim 16  wherein said second group of heart-suited cards is on a red background. 
   
   
       18 . The plurality of cards of  claim 16  wherein said fourth group of spade-suited cards is on a black background. 
   
   
       19 . A plurality of playing cards forming a deck, said plurality of cards including four suits, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, comprising:
 a first group of heart-suited cards with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a second group of diamond-suited cards having a non-white border surrounding a white center background therewithin, all markings, diamond shapes and numbers in said border being a white color and all markings, diamond shapes and numbers in said white center background being a non-white color;   a third group of spade-suited cards with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and   a fourth group of club-suited cards having a non-white border surrounding a white center background therewithin, all markings, club shapes and numbers in said border being a white color and all markings, club shapes and numbers in said white center background being a non-white color.   
   
   
       20 . The plurality of cards of  claim 19  wherein said second group of diamond-suited cards have a red border. 
   
   
       21 . The plurality of cards of  claim 19  wherein relative to said second group of diamond-suited cards, all markings, diamond shapes and numbers in said white center background are red. 
   
   
       22 . The plurality of cards of  claim 19  wherein said fourth group of club-suited cards have a black border. 
   
   
       23 . The plurality of cards of  claim 19  wherein relative to said fourth group of club-suited cards, all markings, club shapes and numbers in said white center background are black. 
   
   
       24 . A plurality of playing cards forming a deck, said plurality of cards including four suits, said suits being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, comprising:
 a first group of heart-suited cards having a non-white border surrounding a white center background therewithin, all markings, heart shapes and numbers in said border being a white color and all markings, heart shapes and numbers in said white center background being a non-white color;   a second group of diamond-suited cards with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background;   a third group of spade-suited cards having a non-white border surrounding a white center background therewithin, all markings, spade shapes and numbers in said border being a white color and all markings, spade shapes and numbers in said white center background being a non-white color; and   a fourth group of club-suited cards with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background.   
   
   
       25 . The plurality of cards of  claim 24  wherein said first group of heart-suited cards have a red border. 
   
   
       26 . The plurality of cards of  claim 24  wherein relative to said first group of heart-suited cards, all markings, heart shapes and numbers in said white center background are red. 
   
   
       27 . The plurality of cards of  claim 24  wherein said third group of spade-suited cards have a black border. 
   
   
       28 . The plurality of cards of  claim 24  wherein relative to said third group of spade-suited cards, all markings, spade shapes and numbers in said white center background are black.