Ranarama (also Rana Rama) is a top-down Gauntlet-like[4] action game developed by Graftgold and published by Hewson Consultants in 1987.
It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computers.
The main character is Mervyn, a sorcerer's apprentice whose botched spell turns him into a frog just in time to save him from an invasion of evil magic-users who slay his mentors.
The game is set in a dungeon split into eight levels that are freely traversable (but not necessarily immediately survivable), each of which is split into a labyrinthine network of rooms and houses some benevolent glyphs, 12 hostile wizards, hordes of monsters and monster generators.
The latter can be defeated by attacks, but contact with them triggers a sub-game of unscrambling the mixed up word "RANARAMA" within a strict time limit.