A new game for people who like word games, crosswords and other educational, challenging family friendly games. Literatio is a game of word creation where 2 to 5 players build words from cards drawn with cards used from preceding players’ words to ultimately achieve the highest score. A player’s word is scored by the numeric value of each letter plus the total number of cards used. Each word played after the first must contain at least one card from the previous word and at least one card from their hand. A fast, portable word making game that's also fun as a solitaire game. Literatio comes in a cloth draw-string bag containing 100 small laminated letter cards, instructions, pencil, and score sheets. Player One builds as high a scoring word as he can. For example, 8 points for the total of the numerical values of the letters plus 6 points for the number of cards used. Player Two discards one card from Player One's word into a used letter pool and rearranges the remaining letters while adding at least one of his own to make a new word. Play continues until all cards have been drawn and one of the players has used all of his cards or until all possible words are played. The value of the unused cards that players are unable to play are subtracted from their scores. The player with the highest score wins! Players may use a timer if desired.