So in case this person is also a friend on Wiki and still hasn’t worked out what CURSE mode is - play the game until you get Text mode as your next game. Leave the game be and you should eventually get an anomally i.e. Ghostly Mirror, Mystic Smoke, Lost Time or Scrolleater. You CANNOT banish the anomally as this will turn it back to Text mode, you must play it.
For info about anomalies see all about them in the Wiki by searching for Anomalies.
After you have played the Anomally mode, it then becomes the Curse mode which is always an anagram with the first letter of the object to find being a capital letter.