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You play a kid detective sneaking through a wizard’s castle, solving word puzzles to steal back stolen letters before his traps zap you—it’s spelling turned into a sneaky heist.

Developer: The Learning Company
Genre: Educational
Released: 1991
File size: 1.97 MB
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Game Overview

Super Solvers Spellbound is one of those weirdly charming MS-DOS games that somehow made spelling feel like an actual adventure. You play as this kid detective trying to outwit Morty Maxwell—a wizard who basically went on a word-stealing spree and hid them all over his castle. To get through each room, you're solving anagrams, unscrambling words, and doing vocabulary puzzles that actually get pretty clever. Mess up, and you might get zapped by a trap or locked out of a room.

The pixel art has that perfect early '90s vibe, and Morty’s little taunts when you fail a puzzle are weirdly motivating. It’s one of the few educational games where the learning part doesn’t feel tacked on—you’re actually hunting for letters, figuring out word clues, and unlocking doors like some kind of grammar-powered Indiana Jones. If you’ve got nostalgia for floppy disks and the sound of a mechanical keyboard clacking away, this one’s a great little time capsule. Still holds up if you like word games with personality.


Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
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