Educational card game

Claim 1

An educational card game comprising: a. a number of decks of cards wherein each card has: i. a front side bearing a first word, a second word, a replica of an illustration of an object as depicted on the page of a dictionary said object being identifiable by a word or words the spelling of which is alphabetically sequenced between the spelling of the first word and the spelling of the second word; ii. a tab positioned on the edge thereof having a first set of indicia thereon which represents the level of difficulty of identifying the object, wherein tabs representing the same level of difficulty have the same relative positions on the edges of the various cards and are offset from tabs that are positioned on the edges of cards having different levels of difficulty, the amount of offset of each tab from a common reference point increasing with the level of difficulty represented by the indicia thereon; and iii. a back side bearing a word or words which identify the object depicted on the front side; and b. a container for the decks of cards, said container having a number of compartments which corresponds to the number of levels of difficulty comprising the first set of indicia, each compartment being configured so that only the portion of the foremost card of each deck bearing the first set of indicia is visible to a player and wherein each compartment contains a deck of cards having the same level of difficulty.