Galactic Center for Etymological Research

Word puzzles in space.

Tom Sykes

FREE | PC TINYURL.COM/APC466-GAL While Galactic Center is nominally a game of space exploration, where you’ll travel from sector to sector, charting planets and managing your fuel reserves, what you’re really doing is shuffling letters around to conjure up new words. The ‘fuel’ thing is just a turn limit, throwing up a cute failure message after a certain number of wasted moves. You begin on the planet Star, but by swapping the S and T around, you discover the planet Tsar. And so on and so on, until you’ve located every possible planet in a solar system, and you’re warped to an even more challenging lexicographical environment. While Galactic Center starts simply, offering basic words that are easy to contort into new ones, it balloons in complexity. Even…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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