WO2005074581A3 - Melding card games and apparatus - Google Patents

Melding card games and apparatus Download PDF

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WO2005074581A3
WO2005074581A3 PCT/US2005/002968 US2005002968W WO2005074581A3 WO 2005074581 A3 WO2005074581 A3 WO 2005074581A3 US 2005002968 W US2005002968 W US 2005002968W WO 2005074581 A3 WO2005074581 A3 WO 2005074581A3
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Brian Yu
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Mattel Inc
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F1/04—Card games combined with other games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F1/04—Card games combined with other games
    • A63F2001/0475—Card games combined with other games with pictures or figures
    • A63F2001/0483—Card games combined with other games with pictures or figures having symbols or direction indicators for playing the game

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Melding card games may include a deck of cards (10) including at least one non-suited wild card (34) and a plurality of suits (44), (46) of suited cards (18), (20), (22), (24), (26), (28), each of the plurality of suits further including at least one suited wild card (30), (32) and a plurality of subsuits (50) of subsuited cards, each of the subsuits of subsuited cards further including at least two subsuited cards. A deck may further include one or more effect cards (36), (38) including effect indicia indicating an effect of the effect card when played, and/or one or more victory cards (40) including victory indicia. Methods or sets of rules for playing melding card games may specify combinations or cards that may be used to form melds, that a player may end a round by forming a predetermined combination of one or more melds, and that a victory card is awarded to a player that ends a round.
PCT/US2005/002968 2004-02-02 2005-02-02 Melding card games and apparatus WO2005074581A2 (en)

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