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1. Method for conducting a comparing-card game belonging to a Finnish 27 family of table-card games, said method comprising:
(a) agreeing upon a predetermined set of game rules so that said predetermined set of game rules corresponds substantially to a set of game rules selected from a group consisting of every set of game rules that can possibly be made by a software means for making said set of game rules; (b) identifying, to a player and a dealer, each of at least one player position, and at least one dealer position; (c) providing at least one deck of cards, so that said at least one deck of cards is either at least one physical deck of cards or at least one deck of cards depicted on a monitor, so that each card of said at least one deck of cards bears indicia representative of a rank selected from a group of ranks consisting of ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, and joker, so that any card of said at least one deck of cards that bears indicia representative of a rank selected from a group of ranks consisting of ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, and king, also bears indicia representative of a suit selected from a group of four suits such as a group of four suits consisting of spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds, and so that each deck of said at least one deck of cards consists of the same complement of cards, and thereby has the same deck composition; (d) assigning, to each card in said at least one deck of cards, a value in accordance with a subset of said predetermined set of game rules consisting of;
(r1) if a card bears indicia representative of the rank of ace, then the value of said card is selected from a group consisting of one point and fourteen points;(r2) if a card bears indicia representative of a rank selected from a group of ranks consisting of two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten, then the value of said card is the number of points that corresponds to the numerical-face value of said card;(r3) if a card bears indicia representative of the rank of jack, then the value of said card is eleven points;(r4) if a card bears indicia representative of the rank of queen, then the value of said card is twelve points;(r5) if a card bears indicia representative of the rank of king, then the value of said card is thirteen points;(r6) if a card bears indicia representative of the rank of joker, then the value of said card is selected from a group consisting of zero points, and any number of points required to make a hand total of twenty-seven points; (e) accepting, from the player, a game wager, so that said game wager corresponds to one of said at least one player position; (f) dealing a set of hands, so that said set of hands consists of a player's hand and a dealer's hand, so that said player's hand consists of at least two cards, so that said dealer's hand consists of at least one card, so that said player's hand corresponds to a position selected from a group of positions consisting of said one of said at least one player position, and one of said at least one dealer position, and so that said dealer's hand corresponds to one of said at least one dealer position; (g) establishing hand values; (h) determining the outcome of the game based on said hand values; (i) resolving the game wager based on said outcome of the game. |
