Method of Playing a Card Game and A Deck of Cards

Abstract

A method of playing a card game using a deck of cards. Each card contains a stimulus describing a real life experience which triggers a human response. The active player's team members must guess the correct character to win a point. If the character has not been guessed within a prescribed time period by any member of the active player's team, the opposing team is afforded an opportunity to guess. If the opposing team's guess is correct, the opposing team earns a point. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

1 . A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of:
 a) providing a physical deck of cards, wherein each card contains a series of words describing a stimulus;   b) allowing players of the card game to establish teams, each team including two or more players;   c) allowing said players of the card game to establish a plurality of characters for playing the game, wherein each name of the characters is written on a separate piece of paper, each piece of paper is folded and placed in a bag for subsequent retrieval;   d) allowing a player from each team to roll a die to determine which team will play first, wherein the team rolling a highest number of the die will start the play of the game;   e) allowing an active player to retrieve a character from the bag and a card from the deck, the player reads the stimulus to the players and responds to the stimulus through oral and/or physical communication, in a manner exhibiting innate characteristics about the character retrieved from the bag; and   f) allowing players of the team corresponding to the active player to guess the character within a time period, if any of the players correctly guess the character within the time period, the team earns a point, and if none of the players of the team corresponding to the active player correctly guesses the character within the time period, allowing another team one guess at the character, the other team earns a point if the guess is correct, and the team with the most points wins the game.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the characters correspond to the players of the game. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the characters correspond to family members. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the characters correspond to co-workers. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the characters correspond to any group of people familial to the players of the game. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein each stimulus describes a real life experience which triggers a human response. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein an active player is not allowed to show the players the name of the character retrieved from the bag. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the time period is monitored with a timer. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the time period is monitored with an hourglass. 
     
     
         10 . A card game comprising;
 a deck of cards, wherein the deck of cards are divided into categories, the categories include a plurality of cards for adults, a plurality of cards for teens, and a plurality of cards for minors, the face of each card comprises a stimulus which describes a real life experience which triggers a human response coincident with a character of an age group corresponding to one of the categories of cards;   a die for determining the order or play for each team participating in the game; and   a bag for holding the characters of the game, the characters being determined by the players of the game and written individually on a piece of paper which is folded and inserted in the bag.