Poquere: An Online Game Blending Word Skills with Psychology and Strategy

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-03-15
UBETCHHA
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[0009]Poquere is a unique game that combines word creation and scoring with the competitive and psychological aspects of Texas Holdem style Poker, making it engaging and addictive. Several innovations are defined that make the game exciting in an online social gaming context and allow unique monetization capabilities. Unlike Scrabble, it allows psychologically exciting betting, and unlike Poker, it exercises word making and vocabulary skills. While the preferred embodiment is an online multiplayer game, the teaching of this invention can be applied to physical game play with real cards as well.

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Such games are challenging with an educational aspect while providing fun for a group of friends coming together for an evening of enjoyment and socializing.

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Fundamentals of the Game: the Card Deck

[0012]The game is played with a card deck consisting of a fixed number of cards, where each card has on its face, a string of one or two alphabetic characters, called digraphs (for example, ‘O’ or ‘IN’) and a point score (for example, ‘3’, or ‘7’). For the purposes of this description we will use letters from the Latin script (suitable for English), but the invention does not restrict letters from other writing systems and languages. In general, the game could be extended to include trigraphs, or other constructs without changing the invention. For example, an equivalent card deck could be constructed for other Latin-based scripts such as French or German, or Cyrillic scripts such as Russian, or indeed any other. Further, based on extensive simulations, we have determined that the card point scores need to range between 1 and 20. FIG. 1 shows typical Poquere card faces for a few sample cards.

[0013]The exact composition of the card deck is chang...

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Poquere is a unique game that blends word creation and scoring with the competitive and psychological aspects of Texas Holdem style Poker, making it engaging and addictive. Several innovations are defined that make the game exciting in an online social gaming context and allow unique monetization capabilities.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Technical Field[0002]This invention relates generally to multiplayer word games, particularly, to forming words from a dealt set of cards, each bearing one or more letter of the alphabet, and a point score thereof; thereafter, following a given set of betting and word-making rules, providing psychological challenges and entertainment related to the players' vocabulary adeptness. The goal is for the players to place bets which can be won by making the highest-scoring word in each round of play.[0003]2. Description of the Prior Art[0004]A number of word games are marketed that challenge the skill, imagination and vocabulary of opposing players. Most word games are either board games such as Scrabble played with tiles, or their online equivalents. Some games like Quiddler, utilize a deck of cards each having one or more letters. Such games are challenging with an educational aspect while providing fun for a group of friends coming together for an eve...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F1/00
CPCA63F1/00A63F2001/005G07F17/3293A63F2003/0426A63F2011/0062A63F2001/0466
Inventor MULGAONKAR, PRASANNAMULGAONKAR, ANJALIGARG, ATULGARG, EWAVASWANI, PRAKASHVASWANI, RUBY
Owner UBETCHHA
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