22,802 Ways To Solve Scribblenauts

14 Sep 2009 at 14:15:10 by Gunnar Petzall

"Achronite", "Baseball Diamonds" and "Sorority Girls" are just three out of a possible 22,802 ways to solve puzzles in 5th Cell's DS game Scribblenauts.

Joystiq reports that Scribblenauts was hacked and had its extensive dictionary extracted. The size of it is certainly impressive, with 22,802 words being part of the solutions to pieces of the puzzle game.

You can read the whole list on Page 2 (don't worry, it's just 250KB despite being so long), but if you're interested in finding out for yourself just what you can and can't do in the game, you should probably skip this (not so little) spoiler.

Scribblenauts is an unusual puzzle game with its catchphrase "Write Anything, Solve Everything." The objective is to complete puzzles to collect "Starites". You do this by summoning objects out of a database of these 22,802 words by writing an object's name on the touchscreen. The game is considered by its developers to help promote emergent gameplay by challenging the player to solve its puzzles within certain limitations or through multiple unique solutions.

Just how the sorority girl will help you is currently unknown, but you will be able to find out for yourself next Tuesday, when the game hits the stores.

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