Letter Rally

Letter Rally 1.0 is a 1998 shareware word-puzzle collection by Gilles Bergeron in which the player works through 30+ word and logic puzzles to uncover the names of 30 world capitals. It mixes traditional word play with arcade-style action segments, treating each capital as a stage in a globe-trotting puzzle rally.

The rally concept

Each of the 30 capitals is gated behind a different puzzle. Solving a puzzle reveals the city's name and advances the player to the next leg of the rally, with several surprise mini-games and bonus rounds layered between the standard word challenges. The framing turns a puzzle anthology into a loose round-the-world tour.

Puzzle variety

The collection bundles more than 30 distinct puzzle types, ranging from straight word puzzles and logic exercises to action-flavored stages that ask the player to react under time pressure. Bergeron's stated design goal was to blend word puzzles and action games into a single shareware package.

This package: nid 11078

This entry sits alongside nid 11050 because Letter Rally 1.0 shipped as two separate Info-Mac uploads -- one for PowerPC and one for 68k Macs -- with identical gameplay but different processor requirements. The 68k build targets a 68030 processor; the PowerPC build is native PPC.

System requirements

System 7.0 or higher, a 256-color 640x480 monitor, and 8 MB of RAM. Either a PowerPC processor (PPC build) or a 68030 (68k build) is required; the original release date is 13 March 1998. Distribution: shareware.