Playing Card Cups

Abstract

An apparatus includes a set of playing card cups, wherein at least one of the playing card cups comprises an image of a specific playing card configured to elegantly and easily identify the cup's user.

1 . An apparatus, comprising:
 a set of playing card cups, wherein each playing card cup comprises exactly one image of a specific playing card selected from one of a standard deck of 52 playing cards, a first joker playing card cup, and a second joker playing card cup, wherein the second joker is different from the first joker, so as to elegantly and easily identify the cup's user, wherein at least one playing card image is usable in a playing card game.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , the apparatus configured to elegantly and easily identify the cup's user without need for a writing implement. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the apparatus does not comprise a writing implement. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to elegantly and easily identify a user of a cup for a group of up to 54 persons. 
     
     
         5 . (canceled) 
     
     
         6 . (canceled) 
     
     
         7 . (canceled) 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the first joker card comprises a big joker. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the second joker card comprises a small joker, and wherein the big joker has larger dimensions than the small joker. 
     
     
         10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein a first, image side of the cup comprises the image of the specific playing card, and a second, opposite side of the cup does not comprise the image of the specific playing card. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the image side of the cup is on an opposite side of the cup from the opposite side of the cup. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus of  claim 12 , wherein the image side of the cup and the opposite side of the cup are approximately 180 degrees apart. 
     
     
         14 . The apparatus of  claim 13 , wherein the cup is configured so that an opposing player's card may be concealed from other players by facing the opposite side of the cup toward the other players. 
     
     
         15 . The apparatus of  claim 13 , wherein the apparatus is configured for use in playing card games in which the identities of one player's playing cards needs to be concealed from an opposing player. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus of  claim 15 , wherein the card game comprises one or more of poker and bridge. 
     
     
         17 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the opposite side comprises no image. 
     
     
         18 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the opposite side is blank. 
     
     
         19 . The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the opposite side comprises an advertisement. 
     
     
         20 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein at least one image comprises one or more of a photograph of a playing card and a drawing of a playing card.