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(11) | EP 0 096 143 A1 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Combined tombola and lottery card game |
| (57) Card game combining lottery and tombola games and comprising two packs of cards each
numbered from 1 to 90 bearing images (B) of oneiric or traditional signifiance together
with a description (A) of these images. |
[0001] The invention involves new cards designed for playing several games derived from the popular Italian games of lottery and tombola, up to now played with other devices.
[0002] The cards according to this invention consist of two packs of 90 cards each: the player's pack has cards with the numbers 1 to 90 on the back and with the same numbers plus either pictures of figures, objects, personalities derived from the so-called 'dream book' of the lottery, which preferably with oneiric images associates different meanings to each number, or some traditional symbols related to the numbers of the tombola game, so as to blend the two games together; the dealer's deck has identical cards except that the back has no numbers.
[0003] A complete series of the various cards with different pictures from the 'dream book' areshown in the attached drawings in a purely exemplificative and non-limiting way.
[0004] In particular, the drawings show the cards with the number between 1 and 90 on the top followed by the written description A of the meaning shown in the picture on the bottom B, so that they partially overlap in a minimum surface, leaving said numbers clearly visible during the game.
[0005] The figures represent the following 90 cards:
1 New Year
2 goat
3 half moon
4 pig
5 broken shoe
6 Epiphany
7 pipe
8 scissors
9 ladder
10 mole
11 earthquake
12 carneval
13 devil
14 bottle
15 bump
16 tongs
17 bad luck
18 ball
19 drunk
20 rabbit
21 chamber pot
22 sunset
23 buttocks
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas
26 toilet
27 bus
28 key
29 thunderbolt
30 pitch black
31 chain
32 . flask
33 Christ's age
34 hunchback
35 chair
36 broken mirror
37 monk
38 ambulance
39 ace
40 shirt
41 knife
42 mimosa
43 clover
44 rainbow
45 witch
46 cloud
47 speaking dead
48 lemon
49 wedding gown
50 Italy
51 match
52 mama
53 singing rooster
54 broken heart
55 bear
56 firemen
57 will
58 pope
59 umbrella
60 mourning
61 zero
62 fountain
63 tricolor
64 blessed palm
65 year's end
66 mice
67 well
68 foot bath
69 butterfly
70 pistol
71 playing cards
72 gallows
73 cup of coffee
74 handcuffs
75 funnel
76 moustache
77 female legs
78 candlelight
79 prisoners
80 police
81 black cat
82 tobacconist
83 baby Jesus
84 fireworks
85 ceiling
86 coffee pot
87 nail
88 spider
89 sung mass
90 fear.
[0006] Naturally, as a variation, the deck of cards may have different pictures related to the meanings attributed to numbers in different countries, keeping the numbers from 1 to 90 for the purposes of the game.
[0007] One possible card game according to this invention may be described as follows: the dealer, who is also the banker, deals the cards with the numbered backs to the players as a function of the number of players, after all the players have made a preliminary bet in money, chips, or the like and the dealer has divided the prize money which, in analogy with the game of tombola and depending on the number of players, may correspond to sets of 2, 3, 4 and 5 winning numbers and/or to the top winner, the players turn their cards over on the table; after shuffling them, the dealer begins to turn over the cards in his deck, with no numbers on the bach, while enlivening the game with his own asides, and arranges them in various columns, one under the other so that the numbers and descriptions on the top of each card are visible to provide a check on the numbers already played; in this way, as the cards are played, each player turns over his cards corresponding to the numbers already played, leading in succession to the sets of 2, 3, 4, 5 and top winners, as in tombola, that is to the covering of all his cards.
[0008] In another variation the cards according to this invention may be used for one phase of a real game of chance consisting of the selection of one card only per player, betting and eventual winning as said card is played among 50 of the 90 possible cards taken by the banker from his own deck, in analogy with the possibility of 5 numbers for each of the 10 wheels of the lottery in Italy.
[0009] Of course, the figures on the cards may be widely varied within the context of representing the symbols of the 'dream book' and the tombola corresponding to each number; also, the game may be played in very many different ways depending only on the players' imagination, particularly if they are expert lottery players.
1 New Year
2 goat
3 half moon
4 pig
5 broken shoe
6 Epiphany
7 pipe
8 scissors
9 ladder
10 mole
11 earthquake
12 carneval
13 devil
14 bottle
15 bump
16 tongs
17 bad luch
18 ball
19 drunk
20 rabbit
21 chamber pot
22 sunset
23 buttocks
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas
26 toilet
27 bus
28 key
29 thunderbolt
30 pitch black
31 chain
32 flask
33 Christ's age
34 hunchback
35 chair
36 broken mirror
37 monk
38 ambulance
39 ace
40 shirt
41 knife
42 mimosa
43 clover
44 ranibow
45 witch
46 bloud
47 speaking dead
48 lemon
49 wedding gown
50 Italy
51 match
52 mama
53 singing rooster
54 broken heart
55 bear
56 firemen
57 will
58 pope
59 umbrella
60 mourning
61 zero
62 fountain
63 tricolor
64 blessed palm
65 year's end
66 mice
67 well
68 foot bath
69 butterfly
70 pistol
71 playing cards
72 gallows
73 cup of coffee
74 handcuffs
75 funnel
76 moustache
77 female legs
78 candlelight
79 prisoners
80 police
81 black cat
82 tobacconist
83 baby Jesus
84 fireworks
85 ceiling
86 coffee pot
87 nail
88 spider
89 sung mass
90 fear.