Cards and card games

摘要

A method and apparatus to play poker or blackjack games that include novel playing cards that do not have non-descriptive backs and novel card arrangements with multiple hands sharing a common card. The novel cards have a first view showing either the suit or rank of the cards but not both, and a second view showing both the suit and the rank of the cards.

主权项

1. A gaming apparatus for displaying cards from one or more decks of cards, where each deck of cards has four suits, each suit has thirteen ranks, every card of each deck has a unique combination of one of the four suits and one of the thirteen ranks, and where the cards are displayed in one of three states:
(a) a first state showing only the rank associated with the card, (b) a second state showing only the suit associated with the card, or (c) a third state showing both the rank associated with the card and the suit associated with the card, where the third state of every card always shows the same rank displayed in the first state (a) or the same suit displayed in the second state (b); each card is in either the first state or second state when initially displayed in the card game; and the state of each card transforms from the first state or the second state to the third state in response to one or more actions by a player of a card game on the gaming apparatus.