Quato
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About this game
Quato turns a sliding-tile board into a word game. Move 24 letters around a five-by-five grid, using its single empty square to make four- or five-letter words across or down. Each move checks the affected row and column against the included dictionary.
A round lasts three minutes. Letters have different values, and longer words multiply their total. The displayed bonus word earns triple its usual score; using every letter shown in the letter list earns an additional bonus. The same word counts only once per round.
This is Soleau Software’s 2.1 shareware release from 1995; the manual dates the first version to 1993. Original loading delays remain. Dictionary editing and faster loading were registered-version features and are not included. The game and its dictionary are in English.
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Quick tips
Wait for the opening sequence to finish, then press N for a new round if necessary.
Move a tile into the gap; a direction with no adjacent tile cannot move anything.
Press D to read the directions and pause the round. Watch for short words before chasing the bonus word.
- Arrow keys
- Slide letter tiles into the empty square.
- N
- Start a new game.
- D
- Open directions and pause the current round.
- S
- Toggle the original game sound.
- Q
- Quit Quato.
- Enter
- Continue a prompt or confirm initials.
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Browser play is available for this entry.
- Distribution
- Shareware
- Browser player
- js-dos · Browser play
- Added to archive
- 2026-11-02
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