Right

Right! is Ton Brand's Dutch-television-inspired word game for the Macintosh, built around finding 5-letter English words from a given starting letter. Version 4.1 is the PowerMac-only release; the title was later rebranded RightWord across the 1.0.4 (68K) and 1.1.1 (PPC) Info-Mac uploads under Ton's Software.

How it plays

The author's pitch: "Right! 4.1 is a shareware word game that resembles a popular game on Dutch television. It's meant for both adults and children. Purpose of playing Right! is to find the 5-letter words (in English) of which Right! presents the first letter." One or two players compete on the same machine or across an internal network.

Bingo board and red balls

Layered over the word puzzle is a bingo-style luck mechanic: drawing balls onto a coloured board, with the goal of spelling out R-I-G-H-T as a column, row, or diagonal. "Red balls" change the course of the game. The header notes this luck factor as the explicit hook that "makes Right! even more attractive" alongside the word-finding challenge.

Versions, platforms, and the rename

Right! 4.1 (Info-Mac right-41.hqx) requires a PowerMac and Mac OS 7.5 or later; for 68K Macs the same author shipped Right! 3.4 as a HyperCard stack. The title was later renamed RightWord: right-word-104-68k.hqx is the 68K build (with a startup fix for Mac OS 7.0/7.1), and right-word-111.hqx is the PPC build, marked compatible with the Classic environment under Mac OS X Jaguar.

Provenance

Author Ton Brand, contact Ton_Brand@spidernet.nl (later info@tonbrand.nl), publishing as Ton's Software at www.spidernet.nl/~ton_brand. Macintosh Garden has no page under games/right or games/right-0; the BinHex headers in the three Info-Mac uploads are the canonical preserved descriptions of the title.