Chocoletters

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 paths to deduce where every letter actually sits.

How it plays

The bundled Info-Mac ReadMe describes Chocoletters as a puzzle game where you have to find how the computer mixed up 36 letters and figures in a 6 by 6 grid. To succeed you may ask for paths leading from one letter to another, and with several paths you can deduce the positions of the letters. Your final score depends on how many paths you requested and how long you took to finish.

What's new in 1.7

Version 1.7 lets you request a path by clicking on a tile that has already been played in the grid, adds handy buttons for the most-used functions, and rolls in a few smaller refinements. Macintosh Garden lists the same 1.7 build under the puzzle category alongside its French sibling.

System requirements

The author targets any 68020 or better Macintosh running System 7 with QuickTime, driving a 640x480 or larger colour screen. QuickTime 3.0 is required for good MIDI playback if you load your own music files, and QuickTime 4.0 is required to play back MP3 files inside the game.

Distribution

Chocoletters is $10 US shareware with payments handled by Kagi. This English entry corresponds to the file chocoletters-17.hqx on Info-Mac; a separate French build (ChocolettersVF 1.7) is distributed as a sibling release by the same author. Macintosh Garden's listing notes a 1999 publication date and includes one in-game screenshot of the 6-by-6 grid.