| SOLO mode | CHALLENGE mode | COMPETITION mode |
| PARTIAL ECLIPSE |
| A French version of SOLO mode |
ECLIPSE is a text reconstruction game.
It uses total deletion. You have to rebuild a text that has been completely masked out. Impossible? Well no, much easier than you might think. You can see the word shapes and the punctuation, and you see a title. Guess a word that might be in the passage, and it will be filled in everywhere it occurs. Start with common words like THE, OF, HE or AND. Try all the words of the title. If the title is "NASREDDIN'S VISITORS" you could try NASREDDIN, VISIT, VISITS, VISITOR, COME, CAME, ARRIVE, and so on. If you are really stuck, there will be help available, such as a five second glance at the original text or the first letters of each word filled in.
ECLIPSE exists in three distinct forms: SOLO mode in which you have to find all the words on your own, COMPETITION mode in which two players take turns to find words, and CHALLENGE mode in which a human plays against the computer. Each form has different kinds of help, but I try to ensure you need never get frustrated; some form of help will be available when you need it. I think you will find CHALLENGE mode particularly entertaining.
Then there is PARTIAL ECLIPSE mode, in which you choose which parts of the text are masked out. You can then either solve that form on screen or print out paper activities.
There is a small starter library of texts which I shall build up slowly. Many of the stories are about Nasreddin, a figure from Middle Eastern folk lore, strongly associated with Turkey. Is he very clever or very stupid? Somehow he manages to be both.