Word Games Based Upon Starting First Letters and Word Relationships
OwnerCharles Novalinventor
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Abstract
A word game provides players with several starting first letters and one or more association categories, the association categories may include antonyms, homophones, hyponyms, synonyms and other word relationships. A player may begin to create a word set by deriving, finding, speaking or otherwise indicating a first word and a second word, on condition that the player generated words have starting first letters issued to the player and share a predefined association category. Disclosed word games may be played upon playing boards, with cards, upon electronic devices and other platforms.
Claims20
A method of playing a word game comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a first letter and a second letter to one or more players;
- b) providing the one or more players an association category for word sets;
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- c) a player creating a word set, the word set comprising a first word created by the player starting with the first letter and a second word created by the same player starting with the second letter and the first and second words having a relationship comporting to the provided association category.
A system for playing a word game, the system comprising:
- a) a playing board, the playing board comprising a plurality of blank spaces and a plurality of spaces marked to show open spaces and association category spaces;
- b) a plurality of letter tiles, with a letter shown on each tile;
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- c) one or more player markers, with each player marker having a unique indicia suitable for mapping to a player.
A card game system for creating words sets having words comporting to an association category, the system comprising:
- a) a plurality of playing cards, each card having a back side substantially similar to the back side of every playing card;
- b) the plurality of playing cards having a front side, with the front sides displaying a letter of the alphabet and displaying a point value;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.