Method of playing ancient Pai-Gow dominoe game

Abstract

A casino game or home recreational game played between a dealer with from one to seven players. In a casino the dealer is a paid employee, while in a home game any player can assume the role of dealer. The game is played with a set of 32 special dominoes or a set of 32 special standard size playing cards. The dealer will scramble the dominoes or cards face down on the table, then randomly stack eight (8) rows of four (4) dominoes or cards. Part of the game is determining who will get the first stack of dominoes or cards. Three dice are used for this purpose. The dice are scrambled when they settle down the dice are added together. The starting position is at the dealer and is counted counter clockwise. Therefore with the game capable of handling seven (7) players the dealer is number 1, 9, 17. The first stack of dominoie or cards is give to the position matching the sum of the dice. The players the arrange their dominoes or cards in such a fashion to get the four dominoes or cards into two sets of matching pairs or failing to have any matching pairs try to come as close as possible to the sum of nine (9) in each set of two. Once every player has set their dominoes or cards the dealer will open his hand and like the players look for pairs. Failing to have any pairs he will them try to make both hands as close to nine as possible. Once all hands are exposed the dealer must beat the player on both of their hands to collect the wager, additionally the player must beat the dealer both hands to win the hand. All split hands where either the dealer or player wins one part and looses the second part is called a push and the hand is finished.

1 - A new improved method of playing the ancient game called: PAI-GOW” 
   
   
       2 - The game according to  claim 1  is without radical changes to the ancient methodology of play. 
   
   
       3 - The game according to  claim 1  is played with dominoes as done for centuries. 
   
   
       4 - The game according to  claim 1  is played with dominoes as done for centuries can be played without the need to memorize sixteen domino or card pair rankings. 
   
   
       5 - The game according to  claim 1  is played with dominoes as done for centuries can be played without the need to memorize seventeen domino or card rankings. 
   
   
       6 - A method for accurate play by ranking each domino or card by their face value i.e.
 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and a wild three (3) can be used as a six (6), and the wild six (6) can be used as a three (3) at the discretion of the dealer and player.   
   
   
       7 - The game according to  claim 6  is played with standard size (width, length and thickness) playing cards to agree with the 32 values. 
   
   
       8 - The game according to  claim 6  is played with numerals using black and red colors to maintain the historical significance of the colors 
   
   
       9 - The game according to  claim 6  is played with a bonus jackpot for getting certain combinations of hands i.e. wild 3 tile with wild 6 tile with 12 tile with 12
 Gee Joon wild 3 tile with wild 6 tile with 11 tile with 11   Gee Joon wild 3 tile with wild 6 tile with 10 black tile with 10 black   Gee Joon wild 3 tile with wild 6 tile with 10 red tile with 10 red   Gee Joon wild 3 tile with wild 6 tile with 9 tile with 9.   
     As in the ancient game the three (3) can be used as a six (6), and the six (6) can be used as a three at the discretion of the dealer and player 
   
   
       10 . The game according to  claim 6  has a combination of old history and modern redesign of a game tiles to allow those accustomed to reading the old tiles from the upper right hand corner 
   
   
       11 . The game according to  claim 6  accommodates those accustomed to playing with ordinary playing cards will have the numerals on the upper left corner.