US1499055A - Game - Google Patents

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CQ W. FRAIM GAME jiu-'ne 24, 1924. u 1,499,055

Filed July 5. 1922 Patented June 24, 1924.

NITED STATES 3 1,499,055 ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W..`.ERAI1VI, O'F HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. y Y

GAME.

Application med July 5,

provements in Games, of which the follow-'- ing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in playing cards which bear, on their faces, indicia specifying official positions in Vthe United States Government from President to Representatives. The cards have corner designations which may be accompanied by numerals on some of the cards, and one of the cards carries the designation Buck, or other selected word of like character.

The accompanying drawings illustrate cards bearing indications showing the individual cards 4of a pack.

As shown in these drawings, one of the cards will bear the designation President,

another Vice-President, one is marked Speaker and vtheother Buck. There are a plurality of other cards designated respectively of Cabinet, Senator and Representatives. The cards have upper and lower corner letters or abbreviations, and where there are groups of a plurality of Government officers, numerals may be added.

A pack of cards may consist of sixtyone cards, or any other suitable number, the

card marked Buck making the pack odd as to numbers, and may be discarded in playing certain games, as the joker is in ordinary card games.

As a type of game which may be played with a deck of cards as hereinbefore described, the cards may be separated into four groups of fifteen each, namely, one President, one Vice-President, one Speaker, two Cabinet, five Senators (numbered from 1 to 5), and five Representatives likewise numbered, and each of these groups, in addition to the designations, may be differently colored. A game may be played by any number of persons from two to six. The cards are shuffled, eight being dealt to each player. Four cards are then placed on the table, face downward. The player on the left side of the dealer starts the game, and has the privilege of laying down any of the eight cards, not to exceed four in number, they being discarded face downward, and exchanging for any of lcounts five points in the game.

1922. Serial No. 572,792.

the discarded ones, which are on the table. If the player succeeds in getting a full set it There is then. drawn from the deck, six more cards, giving a new hand, and if the player ydid not succeed in getting a full set from the draw of four cards on the table, then it is the next players turn to draw, and in like manner the game passes to the next player.

When the cards have all been matched so.

as to dispose of all the sets that can be made in each game, a call is made by the dealer to see who holds the Buck card, the holder of such card being charged with a loss of two points, either to be deducted from the points won, ory charged against the holder. The player that secures forty points wins the game.

Other games may be played, the object being to hold a full set of the official designations and avoid holding the Buck card, as it will reduce the players score, and the card game above described I have named Passing the Buck.

Another game vcan be played -with sixty cards, with from two to four players, which may be partners. The cards are dealt four at a time to each player and then four cards to the table, the cards being dealt face up. The remainder of the pack is placed face downward on the table, and after the first round has been dealt, four more cards are dealt to each player, omitting the deal to the table.

To score points by taking in certain cards and card combinations, the counting value is as follows: Cards, greatest number of cards taken counts 4:; greatest number of cards of a specific color taken counts l; high spot (#5 Senator) counts 2; low spot (#1 Senator) counts 1; and each Cabinet card counts l.

In playing the game, each player beginJ ning on the left of the dealer may make the following plays: if the player holds a card in his hand of the same denomination as one on the table, the player may play such card and take up the two or more, as the case may be, if the cards are of the same denomination. He mayalso take in Yany other cards, the sum of which equals the denomination of the one played; thus a five will take in a five on the table, also four and one, or three and two. A combination may be built of two or more cards by adding a card from the player hand to one 0r more cards on the board, if the sum of such cards equals another card the player holds in his hand. A player may take from the stack being built on the next turn of the player, provided no other player has taken the top card with another card of the same denomination, or has built the stack higher. Thus, if a 3 is on the board of any color, and the player holds a 5 and 2 of any color, the player may build 2 on the 3 and take it on the players next turn with a 5, provided no other player has taken it in with another 5.

After the pack is exhausted, the player taking the last combination, takes all the cards remaining on the board.

T wenty-seven points wins'the game. If

,the players each have twenty-seven points at the finish, one more ldeal is taken and the points counted. This game I have named Yurit Another similar game to the foregoing which I designate as Construction may be played with sixty cards, in which the cards are dealt asin Yurit, the cards having a value as follows: the greatest number of cards taken counts 5 points; if a full set is taken it counts points, and for each hand taken, 1 point. y

A full set in this game consists of President, -VicePresident, Speaker, one Cabinet, Senator or Representative in numerical order, regardless of color. A hand in this game consists of two or more cards, regardless of color.

In playing the game, each player begins by building from a low number to a high one, or from a high one to a low one; thus, if the player starts to build up from one to the President, or down from the President to one, and no other player takes it in, the player has a 'full set.

It' a player begins by building from one up or from President down, and any of the other players or the player takes the cards in at the next play, it is a hand. If any of the other players do not build on another players build, or take it in at his first turn, the player cannot take it or build on-it the next time.

I claim:

1. A pack of cards comprising four suitsy and a single card, the cards of each suit bearing the designations President, Vice- President, Speaker, two cards in each suit marked Cabinet, live cards marked Senator and five marked Representative, the cards bearing the designations Senator and Representative having designating characters at the corners and numbers from l to 5 inclusive, making up a deck of sixty cards with lifteen in each suit.

2. A deck of sixty cards madeup of four suits, each suit comprising three major cards, two intermediate cards and two minor sets of live each, said minor sets being` numbered from l to 5 inclusive, the cards of each suit bearing names of official positions in the executive branch of the United States Government, for use with an additional card marked with a non-oiiicial designation.

' CHARLES w. FRAIM.

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