Playing cards with distinctive suits

Abstract

A system (e.g., electronic gaming device) for facilitating card games using modified, simulated playing cards. The modified cards have a distinctive color arrangement permitting hearts and diamonds, and spades and clubs, to be more readily distinguished thereby allowing card games to proceed at a faster pace. For example, a first suit, hearts, with all markings, heart shapes and numbers being a red color on a white background; a second suit, diamonds, with all markings, diamond shapes and numbers being a white color against a red background, a third suit, spades, with all markings, spade shapes and numbers being a black color on a white background; and a fourth suit, clubs, with all markings, club shapes and numbers being a white color against a black background. Other arrangements are disclosed.

Description

[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 986,778 filed Nov. 26, 2007, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 978,383 filed Oct. 29, 2007.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to the field of playing cards and more specifically to playing cards with suits made distinctive by background screening, reversed border coloring and reversed solid coloring.[0003]The use of playing cards has been around for hundreds of years, and the concept of four suits, with colors being two red and two black, has likewise been conventional for hundreds of years. The use of suits with two through ten sequentially numbered face cards, with three picture cards, jack, queen and king, and with an ace, is, and has been standard for poker, black jack and many other card games.[0004]It is said that the game of poker was first played in New Orleans around 1820. As first played the game had a 20 card deck of tens, Jacks, Queens, King...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]For the first time in the long history of the playing card deck of fifty two cards, the present invention will eliminate card playing errors due to suit color likeness and still maintain the acceptable colors of red and black and be a help to all players, especially those with poor visibility. The present invention will allow instant identification as between spades and clubs and as between hearts and diamonds. The speed of identification will increase player and dealer satisfaction and lessen fatigue. This will lead to increased speed of play which will translate into increased revenue for card rooms, casino pits, card rooms, and on electronic gaming devices like video poker, and legal online sites.

[0009]The present invention will make it easier for the player to identify his or her cards by suit when taking a “peek” because the identification can be made without seeing the shape of the suit. It will also be easier for the player to memorize “down” cards because there are now four distinctive suits.

[0020]It is understood that the pink screened background as applied either to the heart suit or the diamond suit will not obscure the markings, suit shapes or numbers on any card but only serve as a quick visual identification of suit to the player. Thus the player will not mistake a heart for a diamond and vice-versa.

[0021]Likewise, it is understood that the grey-screened background as applied either to the spade suit or the club suit will not obscure the markings, suit shapes or numbers on any card but only serve as a quick visual identification of suit to the player. Thus the player will not mistake a spade for a club and vice-versa.

Problems solved by technology

All card players, using standard two color decks, will, from time to time, experience errors trying to read their hand or the board when playing card games.

While such errors may only injure one's pride in a friendly home game, the same errors in a casino cash game could be financially very costly.

Over the years, after untold thousands of card games with traditional cards, no one has been successful in solving this problem with suit color likeness and still maintaining the same two age-old acceptable colors, red and black.

There have been attempts to use four colors instead of just red and black as well as suit-based color tones, but these attempts are generally not acceptable to card players.

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