Card based act-it-out game and method of playing card based act-it-out game

Abstract

An act-it-out game and method of game play with point cards that have unique phrases on them. The point cards can be positive point cards or negative point cards. Players attempt to correctly guess the unique phrases while another player acts out the phrase. Players attempt to get rid of negative point cards by winning a duel against another player.

I claim: 
     
         1 . An act-it-out game comprising:
 a plurality of a first card type having a positive point sub-type and a negative point sub-type;   the first card type comprises a face side and a back side;   the face side of the first card type comprises a unique phrase;   the face side of the first card type comprises either a positive indicator or a negative indicator;   a single card of a second card type;   the second card type comprises a face side and a back side, wherein the face side of the second card type comprises a unique identifier that distinguishes the face side of the second card type from the face of the first card type;   a plurality of a third card type;   the third card type comprises a face side and a back side;   the face side of the third card type comprises a pair of unique phrases, consisting of a first unique phrase and a second unique phrase, a first directional indicator and a second directional indicator.   
     
     
         2 . The act-it-out game of  claim 1  further comprising:
 a fourth card type comprising a first side and a second side wherein the first side has a first action indicator and the second side has a second action indicator. 
 
     
     
         3 . The act-it-out game of  claim 1  further comprising:
 a timer, a token, and a box. 
 
     
     
         4 . The act-it-out game of  claim 1  wherein the back side of the first card type and the back side of the second card type are identical. 
     
     
         5 . The act-it-out game of  claim 1  further comprising:
 at least twenty first card type cards and at least ten third card type cards. 
 
     
     
         6 . The act-it-out game of  claim 1  further comprising:
 three hundred first card type cards and one hundred and twenty-five third card type cards. 
 
     
     
         7 . The act-it-out game of  claim 3  wherein the timer is a sand timer. 
     
     
         8 . The act-it-out game of  claim 3  wherein the timer is provided via a smartphone application. 
     
     
         9 . A method of playing an act-it-out game comprising:
 initiating a duel between a first dueling player and a second dueling player wherein a card comprising a first unique phase and a second unique phrase is presented to the two dueling players;   assigning the first dueling player the first unique phrase and the second dueling player the second unique phrase;   the two dueling players competing to get other game players to guess their assigned unique phrase before the other game players guess the other dueling player's assigned unique phrase.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9  wherein:
 the dueling players must act out their unique phrase to try and get the other game players to guess the unique phrase. 
 
     
     
         11 . A method of playing an act-it-out game comprising:
 creating a main deck of a first card type wherein the first card type has a positive point sub-type and a negative point sub-type, the first card type comprises a face side and a back side, the face side of the first card type comprises a unique phrase, and the face side of the first card type comprises either a positive indicator or a negative indicator;   a second card type comprising a face side and a back side wherein the face side comprises a unique identifier distinguishing the face side of the second card type from the face side of the first card type and the back side of the second card type is indistinguishable from the back side of the first card type;   creating a main deck of a third card type wherein the third card type comprises a pair of unique phrases, consisting of a first unique phrase and a second unique phrase, a first directional indicator and a second directional indicator;   creating a starting deck by combining a single second card type with at least two first card types;   dealing one card face down from the starting deck to each player;   flipping the dealt cards over to reveal the faces of the cards;   the player with the second card type retaining the second card type;   adding the dealt first card types back to the main first card type deck;   starting a timer;   the player holding the second card type becomes the first on-turn player;   the on-turn player draws a card from the main first card type deck and looks at the face side of the drawn first card type;   the on-turn player tries to get the other players to guess the unique phrase on the drawn first card type without showing the other players the face of the drawn first card type by acting out the unique phrase; and   the first player to correctly guess the unique phrase on the drawn first card type is given the first card type.   
     
     
         12 . The method of playing an act-it-out game of  claim 11  further comprising:
 a new player becomes the on-turn player and the steps of drawing a first card type card from the main first card deck, acting out the unique phrase on the drawn first card type card, and giving the first card type card to the first correct guesser are repeated. 
 
     
     
         13 . The method of playing an act-it-out game of  claim 12  further comprising:
 the steps of a new player becoming the on-turn player, drawing a first card type card from the main first card deck, acting out the unique phrase on the first card type card, and giving the first card type card to the first correct guesser are repeated until the timer indicates time is up; and 
 player scores are calculated by tallying the positive point sub-type first card type cards and negative point sub-type first card type cards in each player's possession. 
 
     
     
         14 . The method of playing an act-it-out game of  claim 13  further comprising:
 a first dueling player electing to duel and selecting an opposing second dueling player; 
 drawing a card from the third card type main deck and placing the third card type face up proximate the first dueling player and second dueling player wherein the first directional indicator is pointing at the first dueling player and the second directional indicator is pointing at the second dueling player; 
 the first dueling player acting out the first unique phrase on the drawn third card type card while the second dueling player simultaneously acts out the second unique phrase on the drawn third card type card; and 
 the dueling player to first get the non-dueling players to correctly guess their respective unique phrase wins the duel. 
 
     
     
         15 . The method of playing an act-it-out game of  claim 14  further comprising:
 the player that won the duel taking a first card type or a second card type from the player that lost the duel. 
 
     
     
         16 . The method of playing an act-it-out game of  claim 15  wherein:
 the player holding the second card type can give first card type cards to other players.