Game penalty-imposing method

Abstract

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.

1 . The method of playing a card game in which the primary objective is for one of multiple players to win the game by getting rid of all cards originally dealt to or acquired by that player during play of the hand, said card game including a deck of playing cards and a plurality of penalty cards at least one of which can be played by a first penalty imposing player against any opponent in the game during the penalty imposing player's turn, the recipient of the penalty card being penalized by having to draw at least one card from the hand of the first penalty imposing player, said method including the steps of: 
 a) said players playing in normal sequence about a playing surface by melding cards on said surface in accordance with game rules;    b) continuing sequential play of the game after the first penalty imposing player penalizes an opponent with said at least one penalty card and that opponent draws the last-remaining card from the hand of the first penalty-imposer;    c) said sequential play continuing until such time as it would normally again become the first penalty imposing player's turn, whereby, in the event a second penalty imposing player imposes a similar penalty on the first penalty imposing player with a second penalty card prior to the first penalty imposing player's next normal turn to play, the first penalty imposing player is obligated to similarly draw a card from the hand of the second penalty imposing player at the first penalty imposing player's next turn; and,    d) thereupon continuing play of the hand until one player gets rid of all cards from hand without being obligated to draw a card from another penalty imposing player.    
   
   
       2 . The method according to  claim 1  wherein said game is one of the family of games known as rummy, in which sets of three cards of the same denomination but different suits and runs of at least three sequential cards of the same suit are melded on said playing surface and are free to be rearranged by any player in the game.  
   
   
       3 . The method according to  claim 2  wherein said penalty cards are optionally usable either for penalizing an opponent or as wild cards in the melding of runs or sets.  
   
   
       4 . The method according to  claim 1  wherein, in the event two or more players impose a penalty against the same opponent and require the penalized opponent to draw cards from the imposing players at the penalized opponent's turn, a first draw is made from the hand of the first penalty imposing player at the first opportunity of the penalized opponent to play, and a second draw is made from the hand of the second penalty imposing player at the penalized opponent's second turn to play.  
   
   
       5 . The method according to  claim 1  wherein scoring of points is made by charging each player with the values of cards remaining in hand when one player goes out, and wherein, in the event a penalty has been imposed against one player and a different player goes out prior to the penalized player making a draw from the penalty imposing player, the value of the penalty card is charged against the penalized player.  
   
   
       6 . The method according to  claim 1  wherein a penalized player is inhibited from playing at a turn in which he must make a blind draw of a card from a penalty imposing player.  
   
   
       7 . The method of playing a rummy game in which sets of three identically-numbered cards of different suits and runs of sequentially-numbered cards of the same suit are initially melded on a playing surface during consecutive play by multiple players about said surface, wherein such sets and runs may be manipulated and added to during play in order to reduce card holdings in an attempt to “go out”, said method including the steps of: 
 a) providing said deck with a plurality of penalty cards the faces of which are distinguishable from the suits and numbers of the remaining cards of said deck;    b) enabling each player to penalize any opponent in said game at said player's turn by turning a penalty card face up before the opponent being penalized;    c) requiring the penalized opponent to make a blind draw of a card by the opponent from the penalizing player's hand at the opponent's turn; and    d) in the event the penalizing player's last held card is taken in the blind drawing, continuing play of the hand until such time as it again becomes the penalizing player's turn to play, whereby another player has the opportunity to impose a similar penalty on the first penalizing player prior to said turn to play and thereby force a second blind draw by the first penalizing player from the second penalizing player's hand at his next playing turn and continuation of play of that hand.    
   
   
       8 . The method according to  claim 7  including the additional step of the second penalty-imposing player imposing a similar penalty on the first penalizing player prior to the first penalty imposer's next turn to play.