A rough ASCII art depiction of the main playfield follows:
Player controls a dust puppy (* on the screen shot), which is chased by several vacuum cleaners with different movement patterns. The goal is to grab all the letters and exit through the upper left corner. You can pass through an unoccupied elevator (some vacuum cleaners use elevators also) by correctly answering a spelling or vocabulary question. Once you complete a level, you can get a bonus by correctly unscrambling the letters you grabbed into a word (in this case, definitely).___________________________________________________________ e ___ f ___ t ___ | : | | : | | : | | : | | : | | : | _____|_:_|_________________|_:_|_________________|_:_|_____ ___ i i ___ | : | | : | | : | | : | _____|_:_|_______________________________________|_:_|_____ ___ e n ___ | : | | : | | : | _/ | : | _____|_:_|____________________________(_|________|_:_|_____ ___ d y ___ l ___ | : | | : | | : | | : | | : | | : | _____|_:_|___*_____________|_:_|_________________|_:_|_____
Spellevator had a utility on the disk's flipside that let a user create a word list and save it to any ProDOS formatted floppy disk.
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