Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Word – sentence – or equation forming
Patent
1989-08-11
1990-06-19
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Word, sentence, or equation forming
273299, A63F 100, A63F 300
Patent
active
049347110
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a word game having a plurality of letter tiles and category cards. The game may also include a letter bag, a plurality of letter racks, and/or a playing board. By taking turns, individual letter tiles are drawn at random by players. If a drawing player chooses to use that drawn letter tile in the composition of a word relating to a randomly selected category identified on a current category card, that player may place that letter tile on that player's letter rack. If the player discards the letter tile, the letter tile is placed face-upward within a designated playing area, such as upon the game board. During each player's turn, such player may exchange individual letter tiles between his or her letter rack and the game board in an effort to spell a word belonging to the designated category. When a person correctly composes a complete word which belongs to the chosen category, the round is ended and points are allocated. Players with partial answers which correctly belong to the chosen category receive points. Additionally selected letter tiles which do not belong within a word related to the chosen category nullify earned points and/or earn negative points.
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Oechsle Anton O.
Vance James R.
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