5. A word game comprising a playing area having at least two rows of successive letter spaces, each of said rows corresponding to an individual player and including only one multiple-letter space and a plurality of single-letter spaces; a first number of single-letter tiles for placement on said single-letter spaces; and a second number of multiple-letter tiles for placement on said multiple-letter spaces, said multiple-letter tiles containing three-letter combinations commonly occuring in words, wherein a word is composed using said one multiple-letter tile with at least one single-letter tile, a score point value being assigned to said composed word according to its length, wherein the score point values corresponding to said single-letter spaces are printed at respective single-letter spaces, said score point values increasing in both opposite directions with respect to said multiple-letter spaces.
6. The word game of claim 5, wherein some of said single-letter spaces are joker spaces, and said single-letter tiles include a number of joker tiles, bonus points being awarded whenever a joker tile falls on a joker space in a composed word.