Patent ID: 6986513

Claim:
A method of playing a board game, comprising the steps of: providing a set-up walk defining a first path of travel along which respective game pieces controlled by players of said board game advance; constructing said set-up walk of a plurality of squares where a first plurality of squares represents vowels and a second plurality of squares represents consonants; providing a plurality of vowel cards and consonant cards; enabling a player to acquire a vowel card when said player's game piece arrives at an end of a move on a square in said set-up walk representing a vowel; enabling said player to acquire a consonant card when said player's game piece arrives at an end of a move on a square in said set-up walk representing a consonant; providing a final walk defining a second path of travel along which said respective game pieces advance; making said final walk discontinuous from said set-up walk; constructing said final walk of a plurality of squares where a first plurality of squares represents vowels and a second plurality of squares represents consonants; enabling a player to acquire a vowel card when said player's game piece arrives at an end of a move on a square in said final walk representing a vowel; enabling said player to acquire a consonant card when said player's game piece arrives at an end of a move on a square in said final walk representing a consonant; providing a plurality of separate starting points along said final walk; identifying each of said starting points as being associated with a particular game piece; enabling a game piece of a player to exit said set-up walk and to enter said final walk at a starting point on said final walk associated with said player's game piece when said player has accumulated a predetermined number of vowels, consonants, or combinations thereof while advancing along said set-up walk; providing a wordgram upon which vowel and consonant cards are placed when acquired by a player; ending said game when a player forms a word consisting of a first predetermined number of vowels and consonants by arranging vowel and consonant cards on said wordgram to spell said word.