Paul Mellerowicz Creative Director of Word-Sport

High school play test at St. Mary's Prep. Orchard Lake, MI.

Game play at University of Michigan. Tournament section.

Visit our word art galleries for samples of word play.

America In Crisis...

Turning Back Illiteracy,
One Word At A Time
So many students are graduating from our schools without the fundamental command of our language, being somewhat deficient in vocabulary. Many also lack the ability to know and form words quickly...to think on their feet! Remedial solutions are not the answer. This problem must be addressed before graduation in a “drill for skills” method. Why not make a sporting game out of it by making it into a tournament game? The same game can be played at the grade school, high school, adult levels and makes for family fun as well.

Reinventing A Word Game
The board game Scrabble® was invented by an out of work architect, Alfred Mosher Butts during the depths of the great depression in 1931. It is a highly effective and fun way to improve ones vocabulary. Being virtually unchanged from its origin is testimony to how well it was thought out by its inventor. In Scrabble®, word formation can be from simple to complex. However, the players (up to only four per game) must wait their turn to make their word play. This slows down the pace of the game considerably and makes the game less desirable to today’s high intensity youth.

Pick Up The Pace With The Fast Break
Consider basketball in its beginnings...a jump ball followed every basket made. This slowed down the game considerably, resulting in very low scores. The slow pace of the game didn’t make it a very spectator friendly event either. It was the elimination of the jump ball after every basket and other refinements (like the slam dunk) which picked up the tempo significantly. As a result, scoring increased dramatically. Teams (from grade school to the NBA) that play a fast break game are also more exciting for spectators to watch and have better attendance. What if similar changes were made to a word game? Continued in about us

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