Come Again, Chachii?

You work in an employment agency, which would be perfectly ordinary, if it weren’t for the fact that your clients are aliens called Chachii who speak in scrambled letters. Each Chachii comes with a resume displayed on a board containing some information, and you start a stage by clicking on it. Stages appear in order, and you must complete the current one to unlock the next. For a little extra fun, the board is also filled with amusing notes. Puzzles are solved by rearranging letters to form words. The only hint you receive is that letters lock in and turn green when a word is correct, so it’s usually best to focus on short words first. Sometimes, you can also solve words that aren’t part of the final solution and can help narrow down the letters. For example, in two of the scenes, you can form words like “manager” or “zoo.” Most of the time, however, solving a puzzle requires interacting with objects on the screen. You might need to use an eye as a replacement for the letter “I,” pull objects to reveal hidden letters, form a word in a soup, and other playful tasks. That’s the easy part. There’s a second, much harder type of puzzle. Here, you face a grid of letters and must create words in each row. Instead of freely moving letters, you can only swap two adjacent letters or shift entire columns up and down. To make things even more challenging, each puzzle must be completed in a limited number of moves, and the words must appear in the correct order. Hints come from the background, but even so, figuring out the words can be tricky. I got stuck on one puzzle where the solution was “fist hits fool.” I knew the first word, but had to rely on online word unscramble to determine the other two words that fit the scene. After that, though, I managed to solve the next few puzzles fairly quickly so the difficulty varies from puzzle to puzzle. There is an undo feature available, but it can sometimes glitch, leaving two letters occupying the same spot. This can be fixed by restarting a stage.