Q Mahjongg Game Played With A Chinese Poker Deck

Abstract

A card game with similarity to mahjongg is played by two to four players with a deck of 52 cards containing five wild cards, three suits with nine numbers in sequence and five groups of four identical cards in which a series of hands are played in which each player progressively takes a turn starting as the dealer and each hand is scored to come up with a total score and the total scores for all the hands in the series of hands are added up for settlement. Each hand is begun by dealing each player seven cards and using the remainder of the deck as a draw pile. A drawing player (other than the dealer whose discard starts a discard pile) takes one of three steps. First, if the drawing player has four of the same cards, the player can declare a gong operation, draw another card, and then proceed again with another gong operation or one of the following two steps. Second, the player can end the hand by declaring a winning hand containing a pair of identical cards and two triplets; the triplets can either be a pong group of three identical cards or a tsee sequence of three consecutive numbers in a single suit of cards. Third, the player can discard a card face up on the draw pile. The play follows sequentially unless another player out of sequence invokes a rule for picking up the top card in the discard pile.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application is a continuation-in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 804,180 filed May 17, 2007 which itself is a continuation-in part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 058,471 filed Feb. 14, 2005, entitled “CHINESE POKER DECK,” the disclosures of which are specifically incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is in the field of card games played with the Chinese Poker Deck™.BACKGROUND[0003]For well over 400 years, there has only been one universally popular card deck, namely the International 52-card pack, known to people all over the world. A myriad of games have been invented for this 52-card deck ranging from family games for kids of all ages, adult games such as Bridge and friendly Poker to casino games such as Baccarat, Blackjack and the currently vastly popular casino Poker game, Texas Hold'em. Through the years past, there have been numerous other card decks introduced sp...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention is a game that is played with a deck of 52 cards containing five wild cards. The game has rules for drawing cards and scoring points based on the combination of cards in the deck. The scoring rules take into account the unique designations of the cards, such as the gong operation and the pong group. The game can be played with two to four players and the dealer has different rules for drawing the top card in the discard pile. The invention provides a game that has the same general rules and design as mahjongg, but with a different deck and set of scoring rules."

Problems solved by technology

Few people are actually aware of the fact that the traditional Mahjongg tile game, one of China's national treasures, is heading towards extinction if no attempt is made to save it.

The traditional Mahjongg game, played with 136 tiles, is actually a rather complex game to learn how to play.

The Mahjongg set itself meanwhile is rather heavy and difficult to move around or store.

But the most damaging circumstance for the game is still the limitation of space and time for new corners especially young folks to learn to play the game.

Thus unless something is done to salvage this 2,000 years old venerable game, very few people, especially the young folks, will know how to play it and that will be equivalent to the game eventually becoming extinct.

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