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Dealing with the legal system can make you feel like you are marooned in a sea of jargon, surrounded by hungry sharks. But keep your fingers out of the water--help is at hand. By playing SharkTalk you can have some fun, and maybe even learn the meaning of enough bizarre legal lingo to float safely to shore.
SharkTalk is a fun, albeit bloody, online game which works like "hangman." But instead of facing the gallows, the little stick person is on vacation, floating happily on an inner tube. Whether he stays happy is up to you. Every day, we'll put up a definition of a legal term or phrase, followed by a series of blanks. Fill them in properly and they'll spell out a legal term: voir dire, affidavit, oyez oyez. (We'll even include a hint.) It's your job to guess all the letters that form the correct hunk of legalese before you're eaten by the lawyer (We, I mean shark) swimming just beneath. As with the legal system, if you only lose a couple of limbs, you still win.
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In the spirit of survival, then, we offer this simple game. Begin SharkTalk by clicking the Start button. Guess letters by pressing the corresponding letter key on your keyboard. The goal is to guess the whole word before you're eaten alive by the shark swimming beneath you. And never fear--you're not alone, for we've included clues, which you can see by pressing Tip button.
So Good Luck! Remember, peril is all around, but we know you'll survive. Sharks have really sharp teeth, and they can smell a drop of blood, or an ounce of confusion, in a sea of legal babble, but they're really simple creatures--a little knowledge will keep them away from your brave little raft.
Users of Netscape Communicator for the Macintosh may see the words "Loading UP. Please Wait." after pressing the Start Button. Update Sharktalk by scrolling the page to the bottom and back to the top.
If, while playing, pressing keys does not cause the game to respond, click on ocean scene.
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