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Fortune telling game

  • US 4,779,870 A
  • Filed: 03/06/1987
  • Issued: 10/25/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of playing a fortune telling card game to provide information pertinent to the player whose fortune is being read comprising the steps wherein:

  • (a) The person shuffles a deck of fortune telling cards, said fortune telling cards comprising;

    a plurality of playing cards, each of said cards having a bottom surface and a top indicia bearing surface, said indicia of each top surface comprising characteristics suggestive of a relationship to at least a portion of the indicia giving the characteristics of a zodiac house depicted on a game board when oriented with said house;

    said plurality of cards comprising four groups of cards each group of cards bearing additional indicia of one card suit selected from the group consisting of hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds;

    said game board having top and bottom surfaces;

    said top surface being divided into a center hub section and twelve equal radial sectors extending from said hub section, each sector having an area embodying one of the twelve zodiac house signs, an area having displayed house identifying indicia, said identifying indicia being means, indicating the numerals 1 to 12, respectively, and an information area having displayed therein indicia giving the characteristics of the zodiac house identified with the related zodiac house area;

    (b) The player selects a first and second card from said deck and placing said cards with the top indicia bearing surface facing upward adjacent to the radial sector having displayed thereon indicia giving the characteristics of the zodiac house which is associated with the identifying indicia indicating the numeral one;

    (c) determining which characteristics of said cards are suggestive of relationships to the characteristics of said zodiac house to thereby interpret said relationships;

    (d) intuitively interpreting the relationships of each of said cards to said house to thereby provide information pertinent to the player; and

    (e) repeating steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) with other cards from said deck for each of said zodiac houses in numerical succession.

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