10-Key Racing is a typing-tutor racing game released in 2000 by Nate Chrysler under the Chrysler Graphics label. The premise is straightforward: "This game exercises your ten-key typing skills. In order to finish each race, you must complete a 35-character line of random numbers and decimals."GameplayPlayers race again…
Word Game
Abaccus is a 1996 Classic Mac word game by Pautex JF in which the player has five attempts to find a hidden word on each of ten boards, with six difficulty levels and dictionary checking in either French or English. The Macintosh Garden listing files it under puzzle / word games rather than the abacus arithmetic genre …
This version has 896 new acronyms. If you already have an older version of ACRONYMS, you can instead download Update List Indigo from http://acronyms.co.nz/updates/indigo.hqx to get the new acronyms.
[words and phrases in capitals are acronyms whose expansions are in the stack] The purpose of this FREEWARE HYPERCARD S…
ACRONYMS Update List Indigo is a content patch for ACRONYMS, the freeware HyperCard stack by Angela Brett of acronyms.co.nz. The update can be imported into any version of ACRONYMS from 1.0 through 3.3 to add the 896 new acronyms introduced in version 3.4 without re-downloading the full stack.What is ACRONYMS?ACRONYMS …
Acronyms Update Ruby is a small Classic Mac utility that ships an updated acronyms reference -- a self-contained dictionary of computing, technical, and online slang abbreviations that sat alongside the original Acronyms application as an incremental data refresh for users keeping the lookup table current.What it doesU…
American Hangman - Presidents and States v2.02 A Carbonized Macintosh Educational Game
Merrimack, New Hampshire, January 20, 2003: Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the "Carbonized" release of version 2.02 of a fun Macintosh game called American Hangman - Presidents and States. American Hangman …
Anagrams 2.3 is a fast, friendly anagram generator by Andrew Trevorrow, billed as a handy companion for Scrabble and crossword fans. David Pogue called it the new champion in Macworld - polished and screamingly fast. Released as a Carbon application with a $20 shareware fee.What it doesGiven a word or phrase, Anagrams …
Apronyms by Angela Brett is a small Mac OS X word-game utility that lets you browse the apronym collection from the apronyms.com web site without an internet connection, while also letting you compose, store, and share your own contributions to the form.What is an apronymAn apronym is a phrase that not only spells out …
Bet Your Booty is a Classic Mac OS shareware word game by Gypsy King Software, the studio of Sharon Delarose, that crosses Hangman with Wheel of Fortune. Players guess letters in a hidden word or phrase, place bets on the outcome, and face an offbeat consequence when they lose. The full version registers for USD 19.95.…
ChaosPoetry Generator is a HyperCard-based writing tool by Matthew W. Schmeer, distributed via the Info-Mac archive as a shareware aid for writers struggling with writer's block. Rather than producing finished verse, it works as a controlled random-string generator: the user supplies the word lists and the stack shuffl…
ChocolettersVF 1.7 is the French localisation of Pierre Durand's Classic Mac deduction puzzle. The computer scrambles 36 letters and figures into a 6-by-6 grid, and the player works out the layout by repeatedly asking the game to draw a path between two tiles, then using the shapes of those paths to pin down where ever…
Chocoletters 1.7 is a deduction-style word puzzle for the Classic Mac OS by French shareware author Pierre Durand. The computer scrambles 36 letters and figures into a 6-by-6 grid; the player works out the hidden layout by repeatedly asking the game to trace a path between two tiles and using the geometry of those path…
Clear Stream is a 1995 Macintosh poetry composition tool by Robert Flannery, built around the Japanese renga form - a chained verse tradition where each new stanza links to the one before it. Rather than producing standalone poems, the program guides writers through interconnected verses one link at a time.What it does…
Cross Puzzler is a Classic Mac shareware crossword-style item preserved from the funet/Info-Mac mirror tree. The catalog page was reconstructed from the BinHex archive header alone; no confirmed author, version, or extended description has been independently recovered for this title.About the titleThe name places it in…
CROSSWORD PUZZLE AID (PPC ONLY) By Erik Oliver Version 1.0 oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu
System Requirements: * PPC Based Macintosh Compatible computer * ample memory for the dictionary file you are using.
This program is similar in many respects to what one might use the 'grep' program for on a UNIX box. The idea here i…
CrozzWord 1.3d by Steve Weyer is a Java-based crossword and cryptic puzzle workbench for Classic Mac OS 8.1 through 9.2.2. It lets a solver display, fill in, and check puzzles drawn either from local files or from an extensive online catalogue of more than thirty thousand puzzles spread across six file formats.Solving …
Crozzwordz 13 X is the Mac OS X build of CrozzWord 1.3d, Steve Weyer's cross-platform Java crossword client. It plays standard and cryptic puzzles either from local files or from an online catalogue of more than 30,000 puzzles in six formats, including authenticated New York Times access, and was a winner in the 2002 J…
Cryptix is a Macintosh implementation of the Crypto-Quotes substitution-cipher puzzles popular in newspaper puzzle pages, written by Kevin Hayes of Dalhousie University. Version 1.1.1, distributed through the Info-Mac word-game collection, runs natively on both 68K and PowerPC Macs and bundles many refinements over the…
Cryptogrammer is a Mac shareware toy from Borkware that helps untangle the letter-substitution cryptograms found in newspapers and puzzle magazines. Type or load a puzzle, click a letter to assign a guess, and watch every matching cipher letter update at once across the working text.What it doesCryptogrammer treats a c…
Cryptoquip is a $5 shareware bundle for the Classic Mac by Ed Olson of MIT, posted to the Info-Mac Archive at version 2.2. It is a small set of programs for creating and solving the cryptoquip puzzles long featured in the crossword sections of newspapers, with an automatic solver as its headline feature.What it doesThe…
Cult Leader Success Secrets is a HyperCard interactive novella and shareware comedy by John Freemyer, framed as a how-to guide for aspiring messiahs. The stack mixes mock self-help instruction with quiz games and satirical mini-tools touching on religion, UFOs, psychics, advertising, politics, and brainwashing.PremiseT…
With Deconstructor you can make words, languages, secrets, and nonsense. Similar to Dissociated Press, Deconstructor parses text files and recreates them as mind-twisting essays, alien languages, alternative vocabularies, and steganographically impressed secret messages. Or, you can generate unlimited quantities of Moc…
Decrypto v3.0 by Ed Olson is a fast cryptoquip solver for the Macintosh, distributed as fat-binary shareware with the playful price of pizza-and-coke. Rather than acting as an interactive aid, Decrypto cracks the substitution cipher puzzles found in newspaper games sections entirely on its own.How the solver worksVersi…
Electric Poet 1.6 is a generative-text toy for the Macintosh by Swedish author Niklas Frykholm, submitted to Info-Mac in February 1996. It takes an ordinary text file as a mould and produces new pseudo-literary works in the same style, working best with abstract poetry where it is genuinely hard to tell the real lines …
Eliza is a Macintosh implementation of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 chatbot, which simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist by pattern-matching the user's typed sentences and reflecting them back as questions. Several independent Mac ports exist, from primitive 1980s System 6 builds to richer 1990s rewrites with far larger con…
Fortune Hangman is a 1994 Macintosh word game by Chris Parker that puts a UNIX twist on the classic gallows puzzle. Instead of a fixed dictionary, each round's phrase is drawn from a UNIX fortune file, with the bundled set offering roughly 650 quips. Players can extend or replace the file with their own, as long as eac…
Guessword is a small word-guessing game written in 1995 by Miguel Frias and posted to Info-Mac as his first Mac game. It plays like a cross between hangman and Mastermind: one person enters a secret word, the other deduces it through repeated guesses with feedback after each attempt. A solo mode lets the computer pick …
Dear Moderators,
Enclosed is guesswords1.02.cpt.hqx, a Hypercard 2.0 game stack that resembles the game of MasterMind, except it uses five-letter words instead of colored pegs. It is a Compact Pro archive. 83K uncompressed. GuessWords is "Compassionware" and "postcardware"
Please replace version 1.0.1 with 1.0.2
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Hang is a Macintosh implementation of the classic word-guessing game Hangman, in the lineage of Ken Winograd's long-running shareware HangMan first released in 1985. It is a small, focused puzzle title built for quick play sessions on early black-and-white Macs and very much of its 68k era.The Classic Word GuessGamepla…
Hangaroo is a Macintosh build of Blockdot's web puzzle game, a hangman variant in which a kangaroo stands in for the gallows figure. Players guess letters to reveal a hidden phrase before the kangaroo runs out of chances, blending classic word play with cartoon presentation aimed at a casual audience.Hangman With a Kan…
HangMan 1.4.1 is a Macintosh implementation of the classic word-guessing game Hangman, written by Ola Montan and released in August 1994. The program's distinguishing feature is its multilingual voice: in version 1.4 it can speak its prompts in Swedish, Spanish, Irish, and English, with hooks for additional languages t…
Hangman Bible is a religious-themed word-guessing game released for Macintosh and Windows on February 8, 2005 by Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Pitched as a non-violent, educational family game suitable for Sunday Schools, it pairs the familiar hangman mechanic with colourful graphi…
Hang Man Pro is a shareware take on the classic word-guessing game for the Classic Mac. A puzzle word is hidden behind a row of dashes, and you have a fixed number of wrong guesses before the stick figure on the gallows is fully drawn and the round is lost.GameplayClick letters on the on-screen keyboard or press them d…
Hoops is an educational basketball game from Joe Hammons that turns reading and arithmetic drills into a scoring contest. Children of all ages earn points by reading the 700 most common English words or by solving basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems on the court.GameplayEach correct answe…
HGG generates hundreds of insults at the click of a button and also allows for a modicum of customization.
HGG requires version 2.1 or higher of HyperCard or the HyperCard Player. It has been tested under System 7.1, 7.5.3, and 7.5.5 on a Macintosh Color Classic, a Centris 610, a PowerBook 520, and various PowerPC-bas…
Iconcentration is a Mac shareware twist on the classic Concentration memory game -- the children's pairs game where a grid of face-down cards is flipped two at a time looking for matches. Its hook is right in the name: instead of cards, the tiles are Macintosh icons, drawn from system resources and customizable from th…