Letter Rally

Letter Rally is a 1998 Macintosh shareware word/logic game by Gilles Bergeron, structured as a rally of 30 word puzzles in which players hunt for the names of 30 world capitals by manipulating letters. It mixes traditional word puzzles with light action-game elements, and ships in both 68k and PowerPC builds.

Gameplay

Each leg of the rally is a self-contained puzzle whose mechanic the player has to deduce as they go: there are no detailed instructions, and figuring out how each puzzle works is part of the challenge. Solving a puzzle reveals a world capital and contributes letters that accumulate over the rally for a potential final challenge. Geographical knowledge helps with the lesser-known capitals; for the famous ones it is more about the puzzle than the trivia.

Features

Letter Rally tracks up to six simultaneous game sessions (slots A-F), each with its own progress, so the game can be shared among family members or replayed without losing an in-progress run. Saves are automatic and the engine prevents puzzle repetition once solved. A built-in world map is available as a reference during play, and the package advertises "several surprises" interleaved with the 30 advertised puzzles.

System requirements

System 7.0 or higher; a 256-colour 640 x 480 monitor; 8 MB of RAM. Two binaries are distributed: a 68k build requiring at least a 68030 processor (letter-rally-10-68k.hqx), and a PowerPC-native build (letter-rally-10-ppc.hqx) for Power Macintosh hardware.

Author and provenance

Released 13 March 1998 by Gilles Bergeron (gilles at nrj.qc.ca), originally hosted at nrj.qc.ca/nrj/lr/. Distributed as shareware via Info-Mac in the game/word category; copyright 1998 Gilles Bergeron, all rights reserved. Preserved here from the Info-Mac mirror.