These three programs use text reconstruction.
ECLIPSE is 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 is under development.
The other programs are about putting pieces of a text in order. In SEQUITUR you see a title of a text and the first line. Below are three possible continuations, all from the same text. Pick the one you think should come next and it will be added, and then you get three more possibles, and so on until the story is complete.
Again I have used Nasreddin stories along with some other texts.
ADDENDA is a new game (April 2026) which works similarly, but this time you see three texts and one word which you have to add to the right text.
All the texts are quite short, less than seventy words, and we are building up a range so that there is plenty of variety of styles and subjects.
Here is a French version: ADDENDA (French)
Here is a German version: ADDENDA (German)
And here, just for fun, is a version with the same text in English, French and German.