Patent Application
20230211227
This application is a U.S. non-provisional application.
The present disclosure relates to a strategy card game and methods of playing a strategy card game.
Card games are a popular form of entertainment. A traditional deck of cards includes criteria such as color, number, and rank like red or black, 9 or 2, and queen or jack, respectively. The traditional card games are played and won based on the suit a person or dealer has. Traditional card game outcomes may depend on chance, the luck of the draw, and/or skill, making the right decisions. Traditional card games can be played by one person (solitaire) or multiple people such as with poker. However, traditional card games may become monotonous and are not likely to stimulate imagination and creativity.
More modern card games have become more complicated with more criteria and complex rules, making the games pertain to games of skill rather than games of chance. Some of these card games are linked to or played in connection with props, game pieces, or are based on movies and video games having complex plots. While these card games may be more visually appealing than traditional card games, their complexity is off-putting. Games last hours, and players have a difficult time keeping track of all the card types and criteria.
What is needed is a strategy card game that is engaging, fun, involves chance and skill elements, and appeals to a wide audience. The card game comprises a deck of cards. The cards comprise creature cards, creature appendage cards, and a wild card in some embodiments. The cards have different colors. The goal of the game is to draw cards to obtain a five-card sequence worth points.
Each player is present at a board with three center cards faced up, three initial cards for each player, and the remaining deck of cards set aside. Each player draws a card from the center cards, discards a card, or passes on each round. When one card is drawn from the center cards, one card from the deck is obtained to replace the drawn card in the center. One game comprises three rounds.
Each player strives to match cards having the same corresponding creature appendages and matching in color. Bonuses are awarded for having a creature card or a wild card called a centurium card. One embodiment comprises card criteria or variables of two creatures, five appendages per creature, and five different colors.
The accompanying drawings that are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification illustrate several embodiments of the disclosure. Together with the description, they serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
The present disclosure provides generally for a strategy card game involving a deck of about 72 cards having criteria or features such as creatures, appendages that correspond to the creatures, and different colors. In exemplary embodiments, there are two distinct creatures. The creatures may be fictional or non-fictional. Each creature has five corresponding appendages. Each appendage corresponds to one feature of the creature. For example, one creature may have a head, a body, tentacles, shell, and antennae specific to and matching that one creature and not any other creature. Each appendage and each creature will be represented on a card in each of six colors. The colors may vary, but exemplary colors include yellow, orange, red, green, purple, and blue.
Generally, the strategy card game is played in a phase of three rounds. Each player starts with three cards, and three cards are placed face up in the center of the board. On each player's turn, the player may draw a card from the center, discard a card, or pass. Each round concludes with each player having a hand of five cards. At the beginning of rounds two and three, an additional card is placed in the center, so four and five cards are displayed face up, respectively.
The game concludes with each player having three hands of five cards. The points are tallied to determine a winner.
In another embodiment, multiple players may engage in a shorter version of the game whereby each player engages in one round, and scores are determined based on one hand of five cards.
In the event of a tie, the winner may be determined by drawing from a stack of cards, and the player to draw a creature card first wins. Ties may also be broken based on the card combination difficulty overall or per round or per phase.
Determining player order can be dictated by a pre-agreed set of rules or by other factors such as age of the players or board position of the players.
In the following sections, detailed descriptions of examples and methods of the disclosure will be given. The description of both preferred and alternative examples are exemplary only, and it is understood that to those skilled in the art that variations, modifications, and alterations may be apparent. It is therefore to be understood that the examples do not limit the broadness of the aspects of the underlying disclosure as defined by the claims.
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Bonus points may be awarded if a player contains one of the above combinations plus a creature card. Bonuses may be additional points or a multiplier. Bonus points or a multiplier may be awarded to a player having a centurium or wild card.
Point values are exemplary to demonstrate the hierarchy and importance of the combinations relative to the other combinations. The point values and multipliers are not fixed and may be adjusted as desired to any value.
A number of embodiments of the present disclosure have been described. While this specification contains many specific implementation details, these details should not be construed as limitations on the scope of any disclosures or of what may be claimed.
Certain features that are described in this specification in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in combination in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination. Moreover, although features may be described above as acting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excised from the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to a sub-combination or variation of a sub-combination.
Similarly, while operations are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. In certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous.
Thus, particular embodiments of the subject matter have been described. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. In some cases, the actions recited in the claims can be performed in a different order and still achieve desirable results. In addition, the processes depicted in the accompanying figures do not necessarily require the particular order show, or sequential order, to achieve desirable results. In certain implementations, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Nevertheless, it will be understood that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed disclosure.
