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SOS Games is a pair of unique games designed to help Latin students
learn noun-adjective agreement and verb form recognition. (© 2002 SOS Nijmegen)
Users can choose from the following word lists (textbook-specific or not): General,
Cambridge, Ecce, Oxford, Wheelock.
'Dracones' is based on the Chinese game called Mahjong, which uses tiles called ‘dragons’--hence, the Latin name. This version depends on matching appropriate pairs of noun and adjective tiles from several three-dimensional rows. Once a good match is selected, those tiles disappear, and points are gained. Nouns can be restricted to only the first, second, and third declensions, if desired; and some help is provided by the color-coding of noun (blue) and adjective (yellow) tiles. |
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'Parimpar' is a game for testing one’s ability to distinguish quickly between verb
forms, with eight different levels of difficulty. A dozen tiles at a time are presented
in three possible colors (red, green, and blue), labeled with various verb forms. The
challenge is to select a combination of three tiles which are all the same (‘par’) in one
or all aspects (color, tense, person/number) and all different (‘impar’) in the others.
Once a correct match is made, the tiles disappear and are replaced by new ones from a
stack, until the entire stack is finished.
In both games, hints can be requested—with a small penalty. When incorrect matches are made, grammatical reasons are provided. A clock keeps time, and extra credit is given for speedy completion of a game; high scores are recorded for future reference. Right and wrong choices are accompanied by optional sound effects. |
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| System requirements: Win (Vista/XP/2000/ME/98) & Mac (OS X & Classic), 32MB RAM, networkable | |||||||||