A card image for a first special card or a card image for a second special card, for which a player input for placing the card in the field is acquired, is removed, and a card image for which a player input for selecting a card as a card to be removed is acquired is removed. Furthermore, as an effect of the first special card or second special card placed in the field, a special lottery for determining two cards from a plurality of kinds of cards corresponding to the class of a player at a local terminal is executed, and the two cards determined by the special lottery are added to the hand of the player at the local terminal.

A device for production of sets of playing cards is provided, and includes: a printing means for printing randomly ordered playing cards; an identification means to identify one or more defective playing cards, having a feedback unit to instruct the printing means to reprint the defective playing cards; and an evacuation means to evacuate the one or more defective playing cards.

A device for production of sets of playing cards is provided, and includes: a printing means for printing randomly ordered playing cards; an identification means to identify one or more defective playing cards, having a feedback unit to instruct the printing means to reprint the defective playing cards; and an evacuation means to evacuate the one or more defective playing cards.

A system including a deck of playing cards. A randomly generated number is printed on each playing card in the deck. An activation device is also provided, which contains a data file of each randomly generated number of the playing cards in the deck, and the order of each playing card in the deck. A playing card dealing shoe is also provided. The shoe includes a sensor for detecting the randomly generated number on a playing card as the playing card is drawn from the shoe. The shoe is associated with a processor, which is in communication with the sensor and the activation device to receive information therefrom. The processor determines whether a playing card drawn from the shoe is expected based on the information from the sensor and the activation device, and disables the shoe when the drawn playing card is not the expected playing card.

A system including a deck of playing cards. A randomly generated number is printed on each playing card in the deck. An activation device is also provided, which contains a data file of each randomly generated number of the playing cards in the deck, and the order of each playing card in the deck. A playing card dealing shoe is also provided. The shoe includes a sensor for detecting the randomly generated number on a playing card as the playing card is drawn from the shoe. The shoe is associated with a processor, which is in communication with the sensor and the activation device to receive information therefrom. The processor determines whether a playing card drawn from the shoe is expected based on the information from the sensor and the activation device, and disables the shoe when the drawn playing card is not the expected playing card.

Provided is a self-propelled reading device to read cards more reliably. Each of the cards includes a first end part configured to be adjacent to another card in a predetermined direction; a second end part configured to be on the opposite side of the first end part and adjacent to another card different from the first end part; and a surface printed with a pattern in which are coded coordinates indicating a positional relation relative to a reference line extended in the predetermined direction indicative of a region in which a self-propelled device is to travel. Each of the first and the second end parts has a positioning part regulating how the other card adjacent to the end part is to be placed. The positioning parts and the reference line have a predetermined positional relation therebetween.

A suit and a rank are printed on one surface of a card base sheet, a back pattern is printed on a back surface, an intermediate layer having a black layer or a color layer similar to black is provided on the card base sheet to make transmission of visible rays difficult, and ink containing no carbon is used for printing the suit and the rank, and thus the intermediate layer prevents the transmission of the visible rays from the back surface and the suit and the rank printed with the ink containing no carbon transmit infrared rays, such that it is difficult for both the visible rays and the infrared rays to distinguish the suit and the rank from the back surface, and one set or a plurality of sets of decks are constituted by individual cards cut from the card base sheet by a cutting machine.

A suit and a rank are printed on one surface of a card base sheet, a back pattern is printed on a back surface, an intermediate layer having a black layer or a color layer similar to black is provided on the card base sheet to make transmission of visible rays difficult, and ink containing no carbon is used for printing the suit and the rank, and thus the intermediate layer prevents the transmission of the visible rays from the back surface and the suit and the rank printed with the ink containing no carbon transmit infrared rays, such that it is difficult for both the visible rays and the infrared rays to distinguish the suit and the rank from the back surface, and one set or a plurality of sets of decks are constituted by individual cards cut from the card base sheet by a cutting machine.

The invention disclosed herein relates to a game that may be digital or physical in structure that uses a plurality of specialized playing cards that combines pictures and words origin associated with pop culture. These groups of words and pictures work together to create idioms or phrases established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs, see the light). Words and pictures are separated in their own suit, the playing cards associated with the game includes but not limited to 100 picture cards in the deck variety and 100 word cards in the deck variety. Each inventive card has displayed on one of its faces either a picture or a word origin and opposite the picture or word origin side are the suits' title side, which displays “word” or “picture”. The picture origin suit of the game is selected from pop culture and includes but not limited to pictures and symbols such as rain cloud, fish, tree, dragon or ball; whereas the word origin suit is selected from pop culture and the group consists of words such as pour, sea, life, fly and play. In addition, there are a number of special and/or assistant cards that help in the play of the game.

The invention disclosed herein relates to a game that may be digital or physical in structure that uses a plurality of specialized playing cards that combines pictures and words origin associated with pop culture. These groups of words and pictures work together to create idioms or phrases established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs, see the light). Words and pictures are separated in their own suit, the playing cards associated with the game includes but not limited to 100 picture cards in the deck variety and 100 word cards in the deck variety. Each inventive card has displayed on one of its faces either a picture or a word origin and opposite the picture or word origin side are the suits' title side, which displays “word” or “picture”. The picture origin suit of the game is selected from pop culture and includes but not limited to pictures and symbols such as rain cloud, fish, tree, dragon or ball; whereas the word origin suit is selected from pop culture and the group consists of words such as pour, sea, life, fly and play. In addition, there are a number of special and/or assistant cards that help in the play of the game.