Electronic game wordbuster

Abstract

An electronic game consisting of a playing grid and individual letter tiles on racks, which allows players to create words for placement on the playing grid without having all of the letters of their chosen word on their tile rack. Players only need to imagine a word, for which they must hold the first and last letter tiles on their tile racks. When their chosen word is typed on a keyboard and transferred to the playing grid that word will in most cases comprise full tone and half tone tiles. Full tone tiles are those essential first and last letters of the word tiles that were on the players tile rack and have transferred to the playing grid. Half tone tiles are those tiles which complete the spelling of the chosen word and are automatically provided by the games management system, and which were not on the players tile rack.

1 . An electronic game that can be played by two or more players, comprising:
 a playing grid; and   a plurality of individual letter tiles on more than one rack;   wherein players create a word for placement on the playing grid without having all letters of the given word on the tile rack.   
     
     
         2 . The electronic game of  claim 1 , wherein players alter words placed on the playing grid by changing at least one letter of any word placed on the playing grid to create a new word. 
     
     
         3 . The electronic game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing grid is displayed on at least one visual display unit; and placement of a given letter tile is conducted by means selected from the group consisting of: keyboard; mouse; or computer control devices. 
     
     
         4 . (canceled) 
     
     
         5 . The electronic game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing grid comprises fifteen tile lines horizontally, and fifteen tile lines vertically, forming a square playing board. 
     
     
         6 . The electronic game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing grid comprises at least ten tile lines horizontally, and at least ten tile lines vertically, forming a rectangular playing board. 
     
     
         7 . (canceled) 
     
     
         8 . The electronic game of  claim 1 , wherein placement of a given word on the playing grid requires a player have in its tile rack at least a first letter of the given word and a last letter of the given word. 
     
     
         9 . The electronic game of  claim 8 , wherein the given word appearing on the playing grid comprises a combination of full tone tiles and half tone tiles. 
     
     
         10 . The electronic game of  claim 9 , wherein the full tone tiles comprise the first letter and the last letter of the given word. 
     
     
         11 . The electronic game of  claim 10 , wherein the half tone tiles comprise letters in the given word which the player does not have in its tile rack.