Board game apparatus

Claim 1

Game apparatus comprising: a game board; a track on said game board having a series of spaces forming a continuous path along which a game piece is moveable in increments; each of certain of said track spaces representing a letter of the alphabet; a plurality of marker tiles, each having thereon a letter of the alphabet and indicia of a monetary value assigned to that letter, there being at least two groups of letter tiles valued in accordance with the frequency of their appearance in words of a language; a second playing board for each player; each second playing board having delineated thereon a limited number of horizontal and vertical rows of spaces for placement of said tiles thereon by said each player; at least two dice each with numbering indicia on the sides thereof to be thrown so that moves along said track may be made, selectively, at the election of the player throwing, in increments corresponding to the numbers thrown, taken separately or as sums thereof; and a quantity of play money for rewarding the formation on said second playing board of complete words from letters on said tiles as indicated by the sum of the monetary values thereon; each complete word so formed to be horizontally and vertically spaced from others on the limited spaces of a player's own second playing board unless horizontal and vertical words are linked by a common letter.