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 or AND. Try all the words of the title. If you are really stuck, you can ask for a hint--a free letter.
| Nasreddin's Shirt | Nasreddin and the Pot | Nasreddin's Visitors | Accuracy Matters |
| Not a Laughing Stock | The Price of Eggs | What is Truth? | Trick or Treat? |
Many of these are stories 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.
This version of the program was written by Martin Holmes, and lacks some of the facilities of the full version. A new version of ECLIPSE.is under development but still at a very early stage.