Patent ID: 6966556

Claim:
A method of playing an educational card game comprising: a) providing a deck of a plurality of letter cards including (1) fifteen cards having vowels thereon, (2) forty-two cards having consonants thereon, (3) three wild cards, and (4) a number value on each of the plurality of letter cards; b) providing a plurality of number cards, each number card having a number from four to eleven thereon; c) providing a plurality of category cards, each category card having a category thereon; d) shuffling the letter cards; e) shuffling the number cards and placing the shuffled number cards in a stack of number cards; f) shuffling the category cards and placing the shuffled category cards in a stack of category cards; g) selecting a number card from the stack of number cards and identifying the number on the selected card as the number of cards to be initially dealt to each player; h) dealing letter cards from the shuffled deck of letter cards to each player until each player has a number of cards held in his or her hand that equals the number on the selected number card; i) placing the remaining letter cards in a stack that is accessible to all players; j) selecting a category card from the stack of category cards and turning that card face up so all players can view the selected category card; k) setting a goal by using the selected category card and the selected number card, the goal being to form a word related to the category on the selected category card using the number of letter cards that corresponds to the number on the selected number card; l) having each player in turn pick a card from either the stack of remaining letter cards or from a card that has been discarded by a player immediately preceding the player and then discard a letter card from his or her hand; m) proceeding until one player forms a winning word that is related to the selected category using a number of letter cards that corresponds to the number on the selected number card; n) designating the one player as the winning player; and o) using the numbers on the letter cards, awarding points to the winning player by adding the number of points in the letters used to form the winning word.