| US 7,549,863 B1 | ||
| Methods of playing card games comprising saying the alphabet with words, saying words with words, and saying the alphabet with words while saying words with words | ||
| Timothy Gerard Joiner, 336 Yosemite Dr., Livermore, Calif. 94551 (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 01, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/286,616. | ||
| Application 12/286616 is a continuation in part of application No. 12/074896, filed on Mar. 07, 2008, abandoned. | ||
| Int. Cl. G09B 19/22 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 434—129 [434/155] | 3 Claims |
| 1. A method of playing a card game by a plurality of players; comprising
(a) providing a deck of 52 playing cards; each card having an identical identifying design on the back side, wherein 31 of
the 52 cards are letter cards having one specific letter from the alphabet marked on the face side such that the five vowels
A, E, I, O, and U are marked on two of the cards and each of the other letters of the alphabet is marked on one card, and
21 cards are wild cards, such that 3 cards are marked as a single letter wild card; 15 cards are marked as single letter or
multiple letter wild cards and 3 cards are marked as 2 times the same letter or more wild cards;
(b) shuffling and stacking the deck face down into one pile for use by a plurality of players;
(c) a player beginning their turn by removing the top card from the stack of face down cards, flipping it over face up and
setting it down in a face up pile;
(d) when the face up card is one of the 31 letter cards the player must enunciate a word that pronounces the letter on the
face up card as it is pronounced as an alphabet letter such that the player says an alphabet letter while saying a word;
(e) when the face up card is one of the 21 wild cards the player must enunciate a word the pronounces a letter as an alphabet
letter per a specific requirement of the wild card;
(f) awarding points to the player upon successful enunciation of a word as follows: one point for the 31 lettered cards, one
point for the 3 single letter wild cards; one point for each letter pronounced as an alphabet letter for the 15 single or
multiple letter wild cards; two points for the first time plus one point for each additional time the same letter is pronounced
as an alphabet letter for the 3 wild cards marked as 2 times the same letter or more;
(g) repeating steps (c)-(f) for each player in turn until all the cards in the face down pile have been played; and
(h) adding the total points of each player to determine a winner.
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