A game system comprises: a plurality of game tokens, an image capturing device and a processor; the image capturing device being operable to capture one or more images of one or more game tokens placed within a field of view of the image capturing device; wherein the processor is configured to: execute a digital game, the digital game comprising computer executable code configured to cause the processor to implement a virtual card game, the virtual card game including a plurality of virtual playing cards; receive one or more images captured by said image capturing device; recognize one or moregame tokens of the plurality of game tokens within the one or more images; responsive to recognizing a set of game tokens in the one or more images, create a virtual playing card based on the recognized set.