US1489541A - Card game - Google Patents

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April .s 1924.

W. F. MILLER CARD GAME Filed Aug.` 15. 1923 gwueutoz Patented Apr. 8,

UNI-TED* STATES PATENT oFFiciil MILLER, OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. f

CARD GAME. Y

Application niediiugust 15,1923. serai No. @5f/,57s.

To all Vwhom t may concern: i

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Miami, in the county of Dade and Sta-te 5 of Florida, have invented certain newand' trip across lthe United States routedpfro-mf I some automobile "road -bookorfguide which is generally accepted a's aiithoritative,fand the individual cards of eacli suitrepresent stopsV along the "trip routed by the suit. The

trips are so planned that they all cross at4 some city in the central-portion of the .United States andthe card representing that city constitutes a joken The vinvention will be hereinafter fully described, the novel features being particularly pointed out in the appended claims. In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 are plan views of cards illustrative of different suits or trips; Figure 5 is a similar view of a prize card; Figure 6, is a similar view of the joker.

The cards are all of the same form and dimensions so that they may be shuiiied and dealt in exactly the same mannerA as the ordinary decks of cards are shuled and dealt. Each card has its particular identifyingV insignia or inscriptions arranged at both ends but relatively reversedso that the card may be easily read whichever end may be held uppermost, and the designations of the differ-Y entV suits or trips are in diiferent colors, all the desiwnationsl in any one suit being in the saine corlor, as will be understood. Now,

referring particularly, to the drawing, itV

will be noted that each suit card has printed upon its face in the upper left-hand corner, as at 1, the name of a city or stop on one trip, and immediately under the name of the city, as at 2, is a statement of the citys population while belovs7 the population, as at 3, appears the name of the next city or stopv along the trip. In the upper ,right-hand stops;

Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California,

there are'iio mileage nor population desiglv nations but on .which the word ,Joker 'apcornerottlie card, as at 4, isa legen-:d giving the distance or mileage between the two While, of course any number-of trips,- loi-` dinarily four trips will Vbe represented and they may conveniently be assumed" as en `tending respectively from Mia.mi,fFlorida.

to Seattle, VVashington';-fromNorollQ Vir-' ginia, -to y f "naniV Francisco; 'from 'Bostom andi from New Grleans, Louisiana,jtof Duluth, Minnesota. These routes all cross at 4St. Louis, Missouri, and an eXtra cardV represeiitinggsaid `city is provided on` whichY pears in the upper righthand corner, as at 5.. Some of the tripswill pass through `some ofy the great national parks and the ycards representing such stops are' prize '75 cards from which the usual population legend-is omitted and direction to count 10 04is substituted,vas at 6. 4vEach suit or trip contaiiis `fourteen cards so that there maybe' seven stops at each side-of the 'commoiicenn tral crossingv stop. j l

The rules ofthe game may be varied in the discretion and by agreement of the players but it is advisable to adopt and abide by certain basic rules. stop at the top of a card is the name of the card and should be called whenthe card is played. The trick-taking .value of a card is determined by the mileage represented on the card but both population and mileage may be considered Yin the count ofrpoints.V The joker outranks all the other cards in trick-taking value but. has no value in the final count vof points. Generally, the game will be played by fourV players, partners being seated oppositeI each other and the original dealer being determined by cutting Y Y for coloror by the highest or lowest number in succession may raise the bid or pass. Y

After the dealer has bid or passed, the highest bidder takes the odd card from the table after which he names the trumpcolor. He then discards one card and leads any card he sees fit, the other players in turn playing 11.0

The city or 35 Y each a card of the same suit if possible and the card having the highest mileage Winning the trick. The player Winning .the trick then leads a card and the process is repeated until all the cards are played. Each player must play a card of the suit led if hehas one, otherwise he may play a trump or throw 0E a card, the object always being to throviy into his partners trick or catch in his own trick cards having low mileage but high population. After all the cards Vare played, the total mileage in the tricks taken by each ,Y side is deducted from the total population represented in the same tricks, the remainder being the final score, provided that if the bidder, does not. make the amount of his b-id he loses What he made and the bid is deducted from his previous score or, if

it be the first hand, is charged against him, and provided also that-the 100 value of a prize cardiscountedrat once in the score. A game may consist of as many .hands as desired. n f v Y The game of myinvention develops a high degree of finesse in the players,r yet it is so simple that youthfulV minds may readily master it,and in playing the game accurate knowledge of thelocation andpopulation of prominent cities in' the Unitedv Statesvvill be acquired." It Will be understood, of course, that intersecting routes in countries foreign to the United States may be utilized as suits. in a deck of cards according, to my invention, or trips Within a single State `may constitute the basis of a deck.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszl. A deck of cards comprising a plurality of diierent suits7 each suit representing a deiinite route across a geographical division and being printed in a distinctive color, each card of a suit representing a stop on the route represented by the suit, and a joker card representing a stop common to all the routes.

2. A deck of cards comprising arplurality of diii'erent suits, each, suit representing a definite route across a geographical division and being printedl in a distinctive color, each card of a suit-,representing a stop on the routerepresented bythe suit, and bearing legendsv disclosing therpopulation of the stop represented ,by the'- card, the name of the next stoep, `and the distance to be traveled in reaching' said next stop; i

3. A deck of cards comprising `a pluralityL of different suits, each'y suit representing a definite-route across a geographicaldivision and being printed inl a distinctive. color,

each card of a suit representing a sto-pon the route represented by the suit, and the cards representing some of the stops 'hav-V ing an arbitraryV prize scoring value` In testimony whereof, I have signed this speci-lication in thepresence `of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLAM F. MILLER.

Witnesses:

S. R., SHEARs'roN, Mrs. B Coorna.

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