Round archive · September 22, 2026
The last train through a closed station
The text, mistakes revealed
Here is the text as players saw it, with its 5 mistakes highlighted and corrected.
The decommissioned express was scheduled to roar through our ruined junction one final time before dawn. Inside the shattered ticket office, decades of forgotten railway correspondancecorrespondence fluttered in the icy draft. Two rusted lanterns hung above the platform, but neither of them was iluminatedilluminated against the darkness. My grandfather was layinglying on the solitary wooden bench, waiting patiently for the violent vibrations. "They dontdon't usually send freight through here," he whispered as the heavy iron rails began to sing. When the train finally tore past us, it felt like one of those terrifying natural phenomena. As the red taillights faded into the fog, our crumbling platform became a dark, isolated ilandisland once again.
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The traps in this round
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correspondance →correspondence
“Correspondence” ends in -ence.
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iluminated →illuminated
“Illuminate” doubles the l, like “illustrate”.
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laying →lying
“Lie” means to recline; “lay” requires a direct object.
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dont →don't
A contraction needs an apostrophe where letters were dropped.
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iland →island
“Island” keeps its silent s.