This microdrive cartridge in fact contains two word games for QL owners. The first is the title game Fictionary, and is a variation on the Call My Bluff game in which you must pick the correct definition of a word from the four displayed.

Fictionary can be played by up to four players each competing to be the first to reach 1,000 points. However, since you only score a miserly 10 points for each right answer, this will take some time. Luckily the game includes a dictionary of some 2,000 words which are also used in the second game, Wordhoard.

This is the better game to play as it is like word puzzles that appear in several newspapers every day.

The computer produces a word from its dictionary and you are given three minutes to type in as many words as you can think of, using the letters from the computer's word.

Once your three minutes are up, the computer scores you on your dismal performance and then lists the words that it created.

This is the most infuriating part of the game as the computer's list reminds you of all those easy words that seem to escape your mind when you're being timed.