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Background of the Invention

Field: The present invention generally relates to card decks and playing cards used to play card games, and more specifically to custom card decks and playing cards used to play drinking card games.

State of the Art: Playing card games is a longtime tradition enjoyed over the years by millions of people around the world. Various card games are be played with card decks of various types and numbers of cards. However, a standard card deck as used in casinos and by the average card player in the western hemisphere contains fifty-two cards, each typically made of a standard size and materials. These playing cards each have a front side printed with one of four standard card“suits” of clubs, hearts, spades, or diamonds, and one of the standard card “values” of aces, kings, queens, jacks, tens, nines, eights, sevens, sixes, fives, fours, threes, and twos.

Card games are played in many different places such as casinos, homes, college dormitories and fraternity/sorority houses, neighborhood bars, and in many types of situations such as competitively for money, for leisure, as a diversion by ones self such as solitaire, and for amusement during drinking of alcoholic beverages as a subset of card and non-card games broadly known as “drinking games”.

There are many types of card games that are drinking games, particularly popular among young males at home and on college campuses. One such card game is “Kings” (also less commonly known as King's Cup, Circle of Death, or Ring of Fire) which is played with a standard fifty-two card deck. Each card has an assigned action associated with it that rhymes with the value of the card and which includes players taking a drink under certain circumstances. The object of the card game is to draw all of the cards until they're gone at which time everyone is drunk.