                                 TEXTRIS

Textris is a cross between Tetris and Scrabble. The idea is to form words
from falling letter tiles.

As the tiles fall, they can be shifted right and left using the arrow
keys. The down arrow or spacebar drops a letter instantly.

When a word is formed, either horizontally or vertically, it disappears;
and any letters above it fall, which might result in more words being
formed.

The program knows all the 53,800 official Scrabble words between 3 and 7
letters long. The words are scored like in Scrabble. Words with more than
three letters are scored as though the extra letters are all on triple
word squares. For example:

	ZAG	 10+1+2 = 13
	ZAGS	(10+1+2+1)*3 = 42
	ZAGGED	(10+1+2+2+1+2)*3*3*3 = 486
	ZAGGING (10+1+2+2+1+1+2)*3*3*3*3 = 1539

Like in Tetris, the more points you get the faster the tiles fall.

Occasionally a blank tile will fall. You can change this to any letter
you want by pressing its key. If you don't make a selection before the
tile lands, a letter is chosen at random.

A list of all the words you make and their points are shown in a window.
These words are also written to a file called GAME.TXT (so you can later
look up their meanings). If you want to save this file, you must rename
it to something else, otherwise it will get overwritten the next time the
program is started.

The sound can be turned off and on by pressing the F1 key. You might also
want to use the Pause key, although some would say that's cheating.

Textris was originally created by Thomas G. Hanlin. This version, which
is written in XPL0, is distributed with his permission.

-Loren Blaney
loren.blaney@idcomm.com
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