EP0364525A1

EP0364525A1 - Card game

Info

Publication number: EP0364525A1
Application number: EP19890903075
Authority: EP
Inventors: Goetz Petschner
Original assignee: PEMARK-DESIGN AG
Current assignee: PEMARK-DESIGN AG
Priority date: 1988-03-24
Filing date: 1989-03-17
Publication date: 1990-04-25
Also published as: WO1989009085A1

Abstract

Les cartes individuelles d'un jeu de cartes sont rhomboïdales, les quatre bords de chaque carte se raccordant aux autres cartes lorsque l'on les place les unes à côté des autres. A cet effet, chaque carte porte sur chaque bord de sa face frontale un symbole de raccordement qui se répète sur au moins une partie des autres cartes. Selon le nombre de cartes et de combinaisons de symboles, on obtient un jeu riche en variantes d'un haut degré de difficulté.The individual cards in a deck of cards are rhomboidal, with the four edges of each card connecting to the other cards when placed next to each other. For this purpose, each card carries on each edge of its front face a connection symbol which is repeated on at least part of the other cards. Depending on the number of cards and combinations of symbols, a game rich in variants of a high degree of difficulty is obtained.

Description

Deck of cards

The present invention relates to a card game.

Card games have always had their own fascination and it is therefore not surprising that there is great interest in new card games.

So far, it has not been possible to raise the card games, which are very popular with children, in which the cards are placed and put together according to the rules of the dominoes, to a higher level of play and so designed that the players have some requirements for imagination and concentration and combination gift.

The object of the invention is now to create a card game which fulfills the aforementioned requirements.

This is achieved according to the invention by a predetermined number of cards, the four edges of which each form connecting edges for stacking with other cards, for which purpose each card has one at the front along each edge, with at least at least part of the other cards has a recurring connection symbol.

These features according to the invention already show which possible combinations of such a card game are subject to if only four connection symbols are used;

4 mathematically 4 = 256.

Of course, it does not lead to a handy game to include all possibilities (at least 256 cards). It is still expedient to use a game of 53 cards including 3 jokers, in order to then use 2 sets of cards for more than 4 players.

When designing the card game, this requires a selection of the possible symbol combinations, which can be achieved relatively easily via a trigonometric basic form of the cards (FIG. 2).

It is obvious that the more cards of different symbol combinations are used, the more complicated it is to lay cards on top of cards.

Both in terms of the handiness of the cards and with regard to the clarity and arrangement of the card combinations to be placed, it is advantageous if each card is rhombus-shaped. för ig is formed, in which case the acute angles of the rhombus-shaped cards each include 60.

Cards of this type can be fanned out in such a way that the player easily recognizes the connection symbols. The cards can also be laid out trigonometrically in a graphical cube shape.

The connection symbols can be numbers and / or letters and / or color markings.

For example, embodiments of the subject matter of the invention are explained in more detail below with reference to the drawing. Show it:

1 shows a single card of the card game according to the invention;

2 the interpretation of the cards of the card game according to the invention in its trigonometric basic form; and

3 shows an arbitrary removal and application of cards of the card game according to the invention within the scope of the game rules. 1, each individual card of the card game according to the invention is rhombus-shaped with acute angles which each include 60 (other shapes and angles are conceivable).

If such cards are put together according to the trigonometric principles according to FIG. 2, the result is 6-point stars or in a graphical representation a cube pyramid. Such a pyramid can be enlarged as desired, as indicated by the blank cards 21, 22 and 23.

Such a pyramid, formed by empty cards, is useful to find a suitable, connection-appropriate symbol combination for each card.

According to FIG. 1, each card has a connection symbol on the front along each edge, which is repeated on at least some of the other cards, numbers and / or letters and / or color markings being possible. The card according to FIG. 1 bears the connection symbols 3 - 2 - 4 -> 1 from the top right in a clockwise direction. This card is found in the arrangement according to FIG. 2 as card 24 and in the arrangement according to FIG. 3 as card 25.

Each card is marked in the center with its value, for example the sum of the 4 connection symbols, or as a wild card with the value 30.

Which value a card should have and which symbol combination is itself arbitrary and empirical.

The card of FIG. 1 with the connection symbols 3 - 2 - 4 - 1 occurs here only once, for example, also the combinations 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 or 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 etc. On the other hand, cards with the combination 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 are available.

The card game described above preferably comprises 53 cards (FIG. 2) including 3 jokers.

According to the relatively simple rules of the game explained below, a highly complex game results with high demands on the players.

Rules of the game:

Up to 4 players can easily participate in a card game; If there are 5 or more players, it is advisable to use two card games.

in player there is left hand. Each player receives 7 cards, the rest is put on the table as a talon.

The player after the dealer begins and places a card face up on the table, for example card 26 in Fig. 3. In turn, everyone puts on. After the first round, each player picks up a card from the talon.

The only restriction is that a maximum of 7 cards may be placed in a row (Fig. 3, 6 cards in row 27).

This then forces them to lie on the side and to form subsequent connecting edges, which allow the next player to lay on 2, 3 or 4 connecting edges simultaneously with a suitable card or a joker. For example, the card 25 in FIG. 3 is connected to two edges, the joker is connected to three edges.

This is exactly where the player's individual ability comes into play, namely in recognizing these possibilities and in thinking and thinking ahead of moves.

This is particularly so because the player who was able to lay on two connecting edges at the same time, can put on two more times on three connecting edges and three times on four connecting edges. If the player succeeds in forming more Multiple connection edges, so he can, if he is still allowed to lay on and has a suitable connection card, continue laying on within the same round in the above sense.

As soon as a player has laid out all the cards first, he is the round winner.

The other players add up the values of their remaining cards, which are entered as minus points.

The game can start again and be repeated as often as desired.

Changes to the rules of the game are possible.

Claims

1. Card game, characterized by a predetermined number of cards, the four edges of which each form connecting edges for stacking with other cards, for which purpose each card has a connecting element that recurs along each edge on the front and at least a part of the other cards. Symbol carries.

2. Card game according to claim 1, characterized in that each card is rhombic.

3. Card game according to claim 2, characterized in that the acute angles of the rhombus-shaped cards each include 60.

4. Card game according to claim 1, characterized in that the connection symbols are numbers and / or letters and / or color markings.

5. Card game according to claim 1, characterized by 53 cards including 3 jokers.