You are invited to test your mental acumen and retention of trivial details facing up against a formidable array of 100 "fill-in-the-blank" questions pertaining to both facts literary and historical as well as deciphering codes and unraveling wordplay, with a few characters from the correct response provided to point you in the right direction.

VariTale is an early BBS door implementation of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure hypertext, allowing users to read through and extend up to three stories per installation (15 in the registered version!) via an oldschool command-line interface. Unconventionally, the author of a given chapter is not given the option of dictating which options follow their passage: that choice is given instead to the writers …

A charming piece of hyperfiction masquerading as a rare romantic text adventure game about a big date with what could be Mr. Right! Choose-your-own-adventure interaction spins the customized player along whimsical tangents but ultimately all plot forks either lead to dead ends or rejoin the fixed-rail central narrative. Little replay value is intended, but manic and wacky energy drive even …

Test your knowledge of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series (radio script flavour) with 60 questions in multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank format.

Nothing less than a computerized spirit board (of which the Ouija is the best known), DaSi lets you commune with whatever technologically-savvy spirits may be channeling through the astral plane near you using an ordinary computer mouse as the planchette, spelling out messages letter by letter. It just lays down the infrastructure -- you've got to bring the spooks yourself.