Board game with letter shaped playing pieces

A board game for two players comprising a board, a holder, a set of playing pieces, a set of marking elements, a set of scoring elements and a word list;

• the board having a common horizontal playing surface divided into a plurality of similar rows of individual playing areas, each area having a slot to receive a playing piece, a score area and marking areas, each of the marking areas being associated with a row of playing areas, each marking area being adapted to receive a maximum number of marking elements equal to the number of playing areas in a row, the scoring area comprising lines of apertures, each aperture being adapted to receive a scoring element;
• the holder having a row of target playing areas, each target playing area having a hole to receive a playing piece, and a separate shield, the number of target playing areas in said holder row being equal to the number of playing areas in a row of the board, and the shield being removably locatable over said target playing areas by a first player to shield playing pieces mounted thereon from a second player, the playing pieces being a set of moulded pieces each in the configuration of a letter of an alphabet, each piece having a tongue at a base portion thereof, said tongue being receivable in a selected slot in one of the playing areas of the board or one of the target playing areas of the holder so that each piece stands independently with respect to its playing area;
• and the word list having thereon a list of words from which a code word may be chosen by the first player as a target for the second player.