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Article: Developers Say New Combat Card Game Defies Traditional Turn-Taking Logic.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 19, 2003
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By Patricia Kitchen, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 19--A potentially multimillion-dollar business got its start when three players of collectible card games from Queens posed this ...uestion: "In real-life combat, would gladiators ever take turns?"
The answer: Certainly not!
That gave rise to their new game, in which an opponent mostly hangs on to play until relin...uishing for a strategic reason, instead of traditional turn-taking. In so doing, these entrepreneurs discovered what they see as a loophole in the game patent held by Wizards of the Coast, producer of Magic: The Gathering -- and the Goliath ...