Patent ID: 7001183

Claim:
A computerized educational game system for teaching a user to identify items from a list of items of subject matter to be learned, comprising: a computer having a visual and audibly responsive display, said display comprising a matrix of separately openable covers revealing upon opening an item to be learned under each cover, the item and an equivalent match of the item appearing under two covers; means for a user to select a cover to be opened revealing an item; an audio input for said user to attempt to identify said revealed item into a computer readable file; a computer memory for storing in a hard drive and retrieving each item identified by said user, and sorting user responses by a user-defined filename; a speech recognition program to recognize attempts at identifying an item; said speech recognition program prompting said user with an audible clue if the user says nothing in response to the revealing of an item and audibly gives the answer if the user still does not respond; said computer recognizing a correct identifying of an item by said user with an indicia, and with a colored font when said user identifies the same item correctly under different covers; said computer storing correct reading of words in sound files; and at end of said game, said computer reveals all items and identifies them back in at least one of the user's voice and alternatively in a computer digitized voice.