US1751523A - Card game - Google Patents

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This inventionis a. card game designed to impart information of a political and historical nature while at the same time furnishing amusement to the players. The game comprises a deck of cards having certain political and historical information displayed upon the faces of the cards and determining the use ofthe cards in playing a game.

In the accompanying drawing, the several fgures'show specimen cards, the cards not illustrated being in all essentials duplicates or similar to the cards illustrated. A deck of cards embodying my invention comprises ninety-nine cards, and ninety-six of the cards are called Senators and each has displayed thereon the word Senator, as indicated at 1. 'The cards also bear the names ofthe States of the United States,-as indicated at 2 in the drawing, and twenty-six of the cards bear the legend. Original 13, as shown at 3,

while the remaining cards of said ninety-six cards bear the designation of the year in which the State represented by the card was admitted to the Union, as, for instance, in` Fig. 9, is shown one. card representing the State of Vermont and bearing the year 1791, as shown at 4. which is the year Vermont was admitted. -The card also bears the word Vermont or the abbreviation Vt, as shown at 5, so that the card will be properly 'designated and identified in playing the game. These several stated designations are arranged in duplicate at the opposite ends of the respective cards, as clearly shown in the drawing, so that whichever end of the card be held uppermost in thehand, the identifying data may be read. As will be understood from what has been said, two cardsare assigned to each of the forty-eight States, and these cards are assigned to the leading politicalparties, the card shown in Fig. 9 and representing the State of Vermont having across its corners the letters or abbreviation Gops, as seen at 6, designating the Republican Party, while the remaining card representing the same vState will be ex- 'Leaders or the Senator cards but a lower' actlyy the same,eXcept that the abbreviation Dems will besubstituted for the abbreviation shown. Referring again to the card' sho'wn in Fig. 9, there appears in 'each corner being 1928. Serial No. 295,924.

of the card the numeral 14, as seen at 7, in dicating that Vermont was the fourteenth State admitted to the United States. Fig. 8 shows a cardrepresentingthe State of New Jersey, and it willbe noted that this card bears the numeral 3 in each corner and also carries the legend Original 13.l

The States of Virgina and Massachusetts, the first States to be settled by the English, bear additional designations, as shown at 8, said designations consisting of the word Leader, and the cards representing Virginia bear the numeral 1 in each corner, while the cards representing Massa.-A chusetts bear the numeral' 2 in each corner. 65 These Leader cards have a higher taking value than the other Senator cards in playing the'game, as will hereinafter appear.

In. addition to the ninety-six cards representing Senators from the forty-eight States, the deck includes three other cards shown in Figs. 1 2 and 3, respectively, one of these'cards, as shown at 9, bearing the 'words Chief Justice across its several corners and also bearing the numeral 99 at ,75 each corner, as shown at 10. Across the ceni tral portion of this card appears the legend Dems or Gops, this card being played as a representative of either political party accordingto the announcement of the player. The card shown 'in Fig. 2 is called the President or Veto card and bears the. I

word President, as shown at 11, across each corner and also has the number 98 displayed in each corner, as indicated at 12.` This 35 card also carries the word Veto, as shown at 13 and also carries the legend Dems or drops as appears upon the card shown in Fig. 1. The card shown in Fig. 3 is known as the Vice President card and carries the 90 title Vice President across each corner, as shown at 13', while ineach corner appears the number 97, as shown at 14. Across the card is also displayed the legend Dems or Gops deciding vote. card has a higher taking value than the value than the President card, while the Chief Iustice card is the highest card in the deck. wo

The Vice President 95 is shuiied and the dealer then deals one card around to the players until each player has received seven cards.v Three cards are then dealt face downward onto the table to constitute a dummy and the remaining portion of the deck is then placed face downward upon the table to constitute a bank. Should any player, upon examining the cards dealt him, find that he has the cards representing both Senators from any one State, he may discard those two cards and count the trick in his score, the object of the game being for one side to capture all the States. The player next to the dealer then leads one card from his hand and if the player to his left holds the other card representing the same State he plays it upon the card led and takes the trick, provided the leader plays a card of the same party as that represented by him. If the leader plays a card representing the opposite party, the player to his left will be obliged, if he has the card, to play the other card representing the same State, whereupon the leader will score that trick and may lead again. Should a player whose turn it is to play not have a card corresponding to the State rep- "resented by the card led, he will draw a card from the bank and if that card mates with the lead card, he will play it on said lead card and count the trick. If the player whose turn it is to play does not have a mating card after drawing from the bank, he will discard one card from his hand and the succeeding player -may then, in turn, play to either of the exposed cards, as described. If aplayer holds either one of the Leader cards, he may pla that card upon the card which has been le as a trump, andthereby take the-trick but he is not obliged to play a Leader card and may one,Dems neither side will count the States represented in the dummy.

The numbers appearing in the corners of e cards happen to be Republicans,'

the several cards representn the order in which the States designated by the cards ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the Union so that the players are informed of the order in which the States were admitted, not

only by the year of admission but also by the numerals which appear as indexes and these numerals, of course, serve vas indexes in the glaying of the cards just as the names of the tates represented by the cards serve as indexes.

Having thus described the invention, I claim:

A deck of ninety-nine cards, ninety-six of said cards representing Senators from the forty-eight States and being divided equally between the two leading political parties and bearing data indicative of the order of admission of the respective States to the Union, and the other three cards being marked as belonging to either political party and bearing designations representing the Vice-President, the President and the Chief Justice, the President card being marked Veto and the Vice-President card being marked Deciding vote, and the cards representing Senators from Virginia and Massachusetts being also designated Leader.

hold it in his hand if he desires. In like manner, the Vice President. President or In playing subsequent hands if a player or side should hold cards representing a Sta-te which has already been scored by that side or player, the cards may be held or discarded in order to prevent them being played to the table and thereupon be liable .to be won by l the opposing side. Afterall the cards have been played, Athe dulmmyfis turned face up Score will be kept as the cards are

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