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This is the third in the new educational series of programs produced for the Atari by English Software. Like programs one and two, it is designed to test the user in a basic skill - in this case, correctly spelling different words by sorting out a series of anagrams.

The skill level is selected by choosing a time limit to solve each problem - graded from 'Crawler team 6' to 'Olympian team 1', which is the highest honour available - and by choosing the size of the word to be solved.

The degree of difficulty of each anagram is set by the number of letters in each word, and is graded from "up to four letters" to "up to eight letters" which is rather hard, especially when trying to sort out words such as "operator" and "theatre".

The instructions accompanying the program are short but adequate, and once the program is up and running it is very easy to use.

The program appears to be bug-free, although in two-player mode the control is not as precise and smooth as I would like - perhaps it would benefit from being compiled.

Although this is a very good addition to English Software's educational series.

D.R.