Crossword game apparatus

Claim 1

WORD GAME APPARATUS COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSPARENT PLAYING SURFACE DIVIDED INTO PLURAL SPACES ARRAYED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS, SAID SPACES BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE LETTER PLAYING PIECES FOR SPELLING OUT ALONG THE ROWS AND COLUMNS VARIOUS LETTER COMBINATIONS, A FIRST MEMBER HAVING A PORTION EXTENDING BENEATH THE PLAYING SURFACE AND SIMILARLY DIVIDED INTO PLURAL SPACES ARRAYED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS REGISTERABLE WITH THOSE ON THE PLAYING SURFACE, SAID PORTION OF SAID FIRST MEMBER BEING SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSPARENT AND CONTAINING INDICIA INCLUDING LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN SOME BUT NOT ALL OF ITS SPACES VISIBLE THROUGH THE PLAYING SURFACE, A SECOND MEMBER HAVING A PORTION EXTENDING BENEATH THE SAID PORTION OF THE FIRST MEMBER AND SIMILARLY DIVIDED INTO PLURAL SPACES ARRAYED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS REGISTERABLE WITH THOSE ON THE PLAYING SURFACE, SAID PORTION OF SAID SECOND MEMBER CONTAINING INDICIA INCLUDING BLACK SPACES IN SOME BUT NOT ALL OF ITS SPACES VISIBLE THROUGH THE PLAYING SURFACE AND THE FIRST MEMBER, AT LEAST SOME OF THE INDICIA-CONTAINING SPACES ON THE FIRST MEMBER BEING NON-REGISTERABLE WITH INDICIA-CONTAINING SPACES ON THE SECOND MEMBER, FIRST MEANS FOR MOVING THE FIRST MEMBER AND SECOND MEANS FOR MOVING THE SECOND MEMBER TO SELECTIVELY ALTER THE INDICIA-CONTAINING SPACE PATTERN VISIBLE THROUGH THE PLAYING SURFACE.