US 12,217,573 B2
Method and apparatus of playing a game using the alphabetic letters
Raphael Mourad, Toronto (CA)
Filed by Raphael Mourad, Toronto (CA)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/350,333.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/708,081, filed on Dec. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0172319 A1, Jun. 6, 2019
Int. Cl. G07F 17/34 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3288 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3211 (2013.01); G07F 17/3225 (2013.01); G07F 17/3293 (2013.01); G07F 17/3262 (2013.01); G07F 17/34 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gaming system, comprising:
a deck of at least 26 physical playing cards, each card having a face side that bears a different letter of the alphabet, including 21 consonants and 5 vowels, and wherein at least one player receives L cards out of S decks; and
a ranking system, wherein the combinations of the letters of the at least one player L cards are compared to all the different combinations of L letters that can be formed out of the S decks within seven categories, G to A, highest to lowest, representing combinations of L letters listed and stored in seven libraries G (S,L) to A (S,L), as follows:
category G: a unique pre-determined combination of letters and/or player's choice of a combination of letters, drawn from all possible combinations of letters listed in libraries G (S,L) to A (S,L);
category F: combinations of consonants only and which form an established word, as listed in library F (S,L);
category E: combinations of vowels only, as listed in library E (S,L);
category D: combinations of letters that form an established name, as listed in library D (S,L);
category C: combinations of letters including at least one vowel and which form an established word, as listed in library C (S,L);
category B: combinations of letters including at least one vowel, unlisted in library C (S,L), D (S,L) or E (S,L), as listed in library B (S,L); and
category A: combinations of consonants only, unlisted in library D (S,L) or F (S,L), as listed in library A (S,L); and
wherein the combinations within each category G to A may be re-ranked in accordance to the order of the alphabetic letters that form the combinations.