Novel Card Game

Abstract

This novel card game is comprised of a set of 200 standard size (3.5″×2.5″) custom playing cards, 36 numbered 1¼″ disks, four immunity tiles, and one 2.5″ direction of play disk. Players deal 4 cards into each of 9 stacks in front of each player's 9 numbered disks. The remaining cards are placed in the center of the table as a draw stack. The goal of the game is to eliminate the cards in all 9 of a player's stacks. It is possible to have more than 9 stacks on the table at one time or to have new stacks added once a player has eliminated stacks. The first player to discard their last card, without any stacks remaining on the table, is the winner.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A Novel Card Game comprising: a plurality of playing cards comprising a plurality of numbered cards and a plurality of action cards;
 a plurality of numbered disks;   a plurality of immunity tiles; and   a direction of play disk.   
     
     
         2 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of numbered cards comprises a plurality of playing cards numbered 1-9. 
     
     
         3 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of action cards are comprised of a plurality of Attack cards, Discard cards, Peek cards, Reveal cards, Swap cards, Reverse cards, Free Discard cards, and Color Shift cards. 
     
     
         4 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of playing cards comprising a plurality of numbered cards and a plurality of action cards are identified by an assigned color. 
     
     
         5 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of playing cards comprising a plurality of numbered cards and a plurality of action cards are identified by an assigned shape. 
     
     
         6 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 2 , wherein said plurality of playing cards numbered 1-9 are further comprised of 4 blue cards, 4 red cards, 4 green cards, and 4 purple cards for each of numbers 1-9. 
     
     
         7 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of action cards are comprised of 4 Attack cards, 4 Discard cards, 2 Peek cards, 2 Reveal cards, 4 Swap cards, and 2 Reverse cards, for each of the colors blue, red, green, and purple. 
     
     
         8 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of action cards is further comprised of 12 silver colored Free Discard cards, and 12 multi-colored Color Shift cards. 
     
     
         9 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of numbered disks comprises a plurality of disks, wherein each disk is assigned a number 1-9. 
     
     
         10 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of numbered disks are also identified by a color. 
     
     
         11 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of numbered disks comprises 9 blue disks wherein each blue disk is sequentially assigned a number 1-9; 9 red disks wherein each red disk is sequentially assigned a number 1-9; 9 green disks wherein each green disk is sequentially assigned a number 1-9; and 9 purple disks wherein each red purple is sequentially assigned a number 1-9. 
     
     
         12 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of immunity tiles are comprised of a first immunity side and a second common back side. 
     
     
         13 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said plurality of immunity tiles are comprised of 4 immunity tiles. 
     
     
         14 . The Novel Card Game of  claim 1 , wherein said direction of play disk is comprised of a first side to indicate clockwise movement of the game and a second reverse side to indicate counter-clockwise movement of the game. 
     
     
         15 . A method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 1  comprising the steps of:
 A. Each player of the game selecting a set of numbered disks and placing said numbered disks on the table in front of each player; 
 B. Providing an Immunity tile to each player, wherein each player will place said Immunity tile on the table in front of the player with the immunity side up; 
 C. Placing the direction of play disk on the table with the first clockwise side up; 
 D. Providing each player a plurality of playing cards, wherein each player deals a plurality of cards into a plurality of stacks in front of their set of numbered disks; wherein 
 E. Each player will begin play by picking up the plurality of playing cards comprising stack #1 of their plurality of stacks; and 
 F. Taking turns playing cards by matching the color of an active card, the number of an active card, or text of an active card until one player has discarded all of the playing cards of each player's plurality of stacks. 
 
     
     
         16 . The method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 15 , wherein each player's set of numbered disks is comprised of 9 disks wherein each disk is assigned a number 1-9. 
     
     
         17 . The method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 15 , wherein each player's plurality of cards comprises 4 cards dealt into said plurality of stacks comprising 9 stacks. 
     
     
         18 . The method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 15 , further comprising the step of players playing cards comprised of action cards. 
     
     
         19 . The method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 18 , wherein said action cards, provide action instructions via said action card text. 
     
     
         20 . The method of playing the Novel Card Game of  claim 18 , wherein said action cards are comprised of Attack cards, Discard cards, Peek cards, Reveal cards, Swap cards, Reverse cards, Free Discard cards, and Color Shift cards.