Word game apparatus

Details Word game apparatus Word game apparatus

1979-03-16

1980-10-14

Skogquist, Harland S.

Amusement devices: games

Board games, pieces, or boards therefor

Word, sentence, or equation forming

35 75, A63F 300

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active

042276977

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for playing a word game in which each player is supplied with a multi-channel slide holder having strips slidable therein. The channels of the holder all lie in parallel relation and are transversely bridged at the holder midpoint by a crosspiece having a column of read-out windows therein, each overlying a respective channel. Each strip is provided with a central blank zone and a series of letters printed on either side of the blank zone, the letters having numerical subscripts which assign values thereto. When all strips are aligned on the holder at their neutral positions, the blank zones thereof are displayed in all windows of the crosspiece. By shifting the strips in their channels in either direction, the player may select various letters for display in the windows of the column in a sequence creating a desired word. The letters of the several strips constitute a treasury containing all letters in the alphabet in a frequency depending on their usage in everyday words, the letters being inversely valued numerically by subscripts.

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patent: 3975021 (1976-08-01), Brown
Scrabble, p. 4 of Jan. 1956, Playthings Magazine.

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