LinguoOrbit
Match the words before they fall to Earth.
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Match the words before they fall to Earth.
Words in two languages orbit Earth, one after another, spiralling slowly inward. Your job is to match each word with its translation before it reaches the planet. Tap a word, tap its translation, and rockets launch from Earth to meet them. Get it right and the pair bursts into letters that burn up in the atmosphere. Let words through and Earth takes the hit. Prefer to watch first? Switch on Autoplay and the game plays itself.
One language circles clockwise, the other counter-clockwise. Orbits decay over time, and words move faster the closer they get — so the pressure builds on its own.
Tap a word, then its translation. Two rockets lead their targets and hit — or miss, if the pair is wrong.
A correct match breaks both words into letters that fall and burn up as they reach the atmosphere.
A word that reaches the surface explodes on impact. Three hits and the game is over.
There's no grid and no stacking. In LinguoOrbit words drift in free-flowing orbits, so the skill is search and timing: spot the pair among the crowd, and pick the right moment before the nearest word sinks too low. Space is three-dimensional — when two words overlap on screen, the nearer one simply passes in front, and tapping picks the front word. If you prefer blocks, LinguoTower and LinguoSurge have you covered.
Pick any two — Japanese and Chinese included. English and Spanish are built in; other languages download the first time you play them.
Both words of a matched pair are spoken aloud, and while paused you can tap any word to hear it.
Get through the basic set and the extended vocabulary follows automatically.
The game remembers your best score for each language pair, so you always have something to beat.
One tap on the robot button and the game plays itself — see below.
Choose the palette that suits you, and the interface language too.
Japanese and Chinese are here too. Japanese words are shown in kanji with their hiragana readings (furigana) above, and Simplified Chinese with pinyin above each word, so you can read and say every word. Both are spoken aloud, like every other language.
Tap the robot button and LinguoOrbit plays itself. Sit back, watch the words orbit, and listen to each pair as it's matched — a relaxed way to pick up vocabulary without lifting a finger.
The robot always goes for the pair nearest Earth, taps the word and then its translation, and launches the rockets.
It waits for both words to be spoken before moving on, so you hear each pair clearly.
Watch the pairs, hear the words, and let the translations sink in before you take over.
While Autoplay is on, nothing scores and Earth can't lose — so there's no game over. Switch it off whenever you want to play for real.