Device card games, play card reader, method of control card games, recording medium and card.

A card for use in a game apparatus which executes a system based on the data read from the card game, the card comprising on one face a coded pattern (170) formed with combinations of regions of a first and second type of luminosities of a lighting, wherein the coded pattern (170) is configured concentrically so that the coded pattern comprises an annular first type of luminosity (172), a plurality of areas of the first type of luminosity zone disposed along the annular region (174a - 174d), and areas of patterns of data from the first type of luminosity disposed at the outside (176) and interior (180) of the annular region and stored with data including exclusive to the card, in which each region of the first type of luminosity is bordered by zones of the second type of light.