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Game penalty-imposing method

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-12-21
WEIGL WILLIAM
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[0003] This invention involves playing of a card or like game where one mode of play involves penalizing opponents to inhibit them from “going out”, i.e., ridding their hands of remaining cards. It is accomplished by one's playing a special penalty card against an opponent and forcing him/her to make a bli

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In all known instances, these latter games simply cause the skipping to be the only penalty imposed whenever a skip card is played.

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[0014] When the primary feature of this application is used in the common game of rummy, it is preferred that it be played with a game that is known as TZAP™. TZAP has several features of play that are uncommon to any other rummy game, and the subject of this application adds but one more, making the overall game rated by many who have played it as being superior to other rummy games. To illustrate some of those features, one can refer to U.S. Pat. No. 6,905,122 issued to William Weigl et al on Jun. 14, 2005. U.S. Pat. No. 6,905,122 is fully incorporated herein by reference, since a great many of the play features discussed therein are played in the game of TZAP. After the application that matured into the above patent had been filed, an additional play feature that results in one of the most hilarious aspects of the game was discovered. The penalty aspects of the game were discussed there, but it consisted of merely “skipping” a player and forcing the skipped player to make a blind...

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A multi-player card or like game that involves “going out” (getting rid of held cards) to win the game, also involves imposing penalties on opposing players by forcing them to draw a card from the hand of the penalty-imposer. Where the last card of the imposer is taken by the imposee, the game continues until what would be the next normal playing turn of the imposer. This presents other players with the opportunity to impose a like penalty on the first penalty imposer prior to that next turn, forcing the game to continue.

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[0001] This invention relates to a method of playing a card game or the like in which a plurality of cards of a deck are utilized to impose penalties on opponents, but in which the main game objective is to “go out”, i.e., by getting rid of all cards held in order for a hand to end. Penalty imposition in this game is a secondary objective of preventing opponents from going out. The latter requires the penalty-receiving party to draw at least one card from the hand of the imposer, normally at the receiver's next turn of play. In particular, if the last card is drawn from the imposer's hand by the penalty-receiver, the imposer does not “go out” until it is again his / her sequential turn to play. This allows another player to impose a similar penalty on the first penalty-imposer before the latter's next turn, requiring him / her to then draw a card from the hand of the second penalty-imposer at what would normally be the first imposer's next turn. This results in game continuation until s...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F1/00
CPCA63F1/00
Inventor WEIGL, WILLIAM
Owner WEIGL WILLIAM