Patent US 4,448,423

Apparatus for playing a competitive scoring game including a flat playing surface divided into upper and lower sections, a plurality of playing pieces, and randomized selector holders for holding sets of playing pieces during play. The playing pieces include reference indicia on the top surface to indicate alphabetic consonants, vowels, and blanks which may represent consonants or vowels. The playing pieces are provided with further indicia of color to distinguish each players set of playing pieces and further indicia on the bottom surface to distinguish playinig pieces having consonants from those having vowels or blanks. The object of the game is to form colorwords by juxtaposing colored letter carrying playing pieces in the upper section. The colorwords may be extended to form other words. The word is won, when no further letters can be added, by the player whose colored letters outnumber those of any other players. The lower section is used to discard playing pieces in juxtaposition to form words. Playing pieces may be substituted in the lower section to obtain particular letters and/or colored letters for play in the upper section so long as the substitution forms a word.