Card deck

Abstract

A deck of cards may include a plurality of cards arranged in a number of suits. The deck of cards may include a number of cards in each suit. The number of suits may match the number of cards in each suit. The number of suits may be at least five. Each card within a given suit may include a unique pip value.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of playing a card game with a plurality of players, comprising
 providing a deck of cards comprising a plurality of cards arranged in a number of suits, wherein:
 each suit consists of a number of different cards; 
 the number of the different cards matches the number of suits; and 
 each of the different cards within a respective one of the suits comprises a unique pip value; 
   dealing a number of cards to each player, the number of cards matching the number of suits in the deck of cards;   placing one undealt card face up to form a discard pile;   placing the remaining undealt cards face down to form a draw pile;   each player, in turn, selecting one card from the draw pile or the discard pile and placing one card on the discard pile until one player indicates that the one player has completed a particular challenge of a plurality of challenges;   each remaining player, in turn, selecting one of the plurality of challenges to utilize; and   determining a score of each of the plurality of players.   
     
     
         2 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the one player indicating that the one player has completed the particular challenge comprises the player indicating that the particular challenge is not a most difficult challenge of the plurality of challenges; and   the method further comprises each remaining player completing one additional turn.   
     
     
         3 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the one player indicating that the one player has completed the particular challenge comprises the player indicating that the particular challenge is a most difficult challenge of the plurality of challenges; and   determining the score of each of the plurality of players without the remaining players getting an additional turn.   
     
     
         4 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 1 , further comprises:
 playing a predetermined number of hands; and   totaling each player's score after the predetermined number of hands to determine a winner.   
     
     
         5 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 4 , wherein:
 each of the plurality of challenges is available for a given player only once in the predetermined number of hands.   
     
     
         6 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 4 , wherein:
 each of the plurality of challenges, with the exception of a most difficult challenge, is available for a given player only once in the predetermined number of hands.   
     
     
         7 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the deck of cards further comprises one or more selected from a group consisting of:   a wild card that is usable in place of one of the number of cards of each suit;   a skip card that, when placed on the discard pile by a player, causes a next player's turn to be skipped; and   a swap card that, when placed on the discard pile by a player, enables the player to swap one of the player's cards with one card from another player's hand.   
     
     
         8 . The method of playing a card game with a plurality of players of  claim 1 , wherein:
 each of the plurality of challenges is associated with one or both of a fixed point value and a variable point value.   
     
     
         9 . A deck of cards, comprising:
 a plurality of cards arranged in a number of suits, wherein:
 each suit consists of a number of cards; 
 the number of suits matches the number of cards in each suit; 
 the number of suits is at least five; and 
 each card within a given suit comprises a unique pip value. 
   
     
     
         10 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , wherein:
 the number of suits is 8.   
     
     
         11 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , wherein:
 pip values within each suit increment from one to a number matching the number of cards in the suit.   
     
     
         12 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 at least one wild card.   
     
     
         13 . The deck of cards of  claim 12 , wherein:
 the at least one wild card comprises four wild cards.   
     
     
         14 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 at least one skip card.   
     
     
         15 . The deck of cards of  claim 14 , wherein:
 the at least one skip card comprises two skip cards.   
     
     
         16 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 at least one swap card.   
     
     
         17 . The deck of cards of  claim 14 , wherein:
 the at least one skip card comprises two swap cards.   
     
     
         18 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 a plurality of tokens.   
     
     
         19 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , wherein:
 the deck of cards consists of 72 cards.   
     
     
         20 . The deck of cards of  claim 9 , wherein:
 the suits comprise spades, clubs, hearts, diamonds, crowns, crosses, stars, and moons.