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US 8,523,574 B1Granted
Microprocessor based vocabulary game
OwnerThomas M. Jurankainventor
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Abstract
An educational word game for play on a cell phone or hand held device that utilizes the linguistic concept of onsets and rimes in order to teach and develop skills in pairing and forming appropriate sets of said onset and rimes in order to form full words.
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A method of using a microprocessor based vocabulary game for teaching the proper use of onsets and rimes comprising the steps of:
- a) downloading the game program to a cellular electronic device;
- b) initializing said game;
- c) displaying a screen having a grid;
- d) a CPU breaking down a word bank into onsets in an onset spread and rimes with said onsets unrevealed and disposed on top to bottom left grids and proceeding to adjacent grids to the right and said rimes disposed in an unrevealed rime stack in the lower left hand grid;
- e) said CPU assigning values to appropriate onsets and rimes;
- f) revealing the rightmost onset in each row;
- g) revealing the top three rimes from said unrevealed rime stack with only the third rime exposed;
- h) combining a revealed onset with the exposed revealed rime to form a complete word;
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- i) validating said word.
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