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WUMP(6) 							 BSD Games Manual							   WUMP(6)

NAME

     wump -- hunt the wumpus in an underground cave

SYNOPSIS

     wump [-h] [-a arrows] [-b bats] [-p pits] [-r rooms] [-t tunnels]

DESCRIPTION

     The game wump is based on a fantasy game first presented in the pages of People's Computer Company in 1973.  In Hunt the Wumpus you are
     placed in a cave built of many different rooms, all interconnected by tunnels.  Your quest is to find and shoot the evil Wumpus that resides
     elsewhere in the cave without running into any pits or using up your limited supply of arrows.

     The options are as follows:

     -a      Specifies the number of magic arrows the adventurer gets.	The default is five.

     -b      Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bats.  The default is three.

     -h      Play the hard version -- more pits, more bats, and a generally more dangerous cave.

     -p      Specifies the number of rooms in the cave which contain bottomless pits.  The default is three.

     -r      Specifies the number of rooms in the cave.  The default cave size is twenty-five rooms.

     -t      Specifies the number of tunnels connecting each room in the cave to another room.	Beware, too many tunnels in a small cave can eas-
	     ily cause it to collapse!	The default cave room has three tunnels to other rooms.

     While wandering through the cave you'll notice that, while there are tunnels everywhere, there are some mysterious quirks to the cave topol-
     ogy, including some tunnels that go from one room to another, but not necessarily back!  Also, most pesky of all are the rooms that are home
     to large numbers of bats, which, upon being disturbed, will en masse grab you and move you to another portion of the cave (including those
     housing bottomless pits, sure death for unwary explorers).

     Fortunately, you're not going into the cave without any weapons or tools, and in fact your biggest aids are your senses; you can often smell
     the rather odiferous Wumpus up to two rooms away, and you can always feel the drafts created by the occasional bottomless pit and hear the
     rustle of the bats in caves they might be sleeping within.

     To kill the wumpus, you'll need to shoot it with one of your magic arrows.  Fortunately, you don't have to be in the same room as the crea-
     ture, and can instead shoot the arrow from as far as three or four rooms away!

     When you shoot an arrow, you do so by typing in a list of rooms that you'd like it to travel to.  If at any point in its travels it cannot
     find a tunnel to the room you specify from the room it's in, it will instead randomly fly down one of the tunnels, possibly, if you're real
     unlucky, even flying back into the room you're in and hitting you!

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HACK(6) 							 BSD Games Manual							   HACK(6)

NAME

     hack -- exploring The Dungeons of Doom

SYNOPSIS

     hack [-d directory] [-n] [-u playername]
     hack [-d directory] [-s] [-X] [playername ...]

DESCRIPTION

     hack is a display oriented dungeons & dragons-like game.  Both display and command structure resemble rogue.  (For a game with the same
     structure but entirely different display - a real cave instead of dull rectangles - try Quest.)

     To get started you really only need to know two commands.	The command ? will give you a list of the available commands and the command /
     will identify the things you see on the screen.

     To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other people's high scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is somewhere
     below the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out.  Nobody has achieved this yet and if somebody does, he will probably go down in history
     as a hero among heroes.

     When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or if you escape from the caves, hack will give you (a fragment of) the list of top
     scorers.  The scoring is based on many aspects of your behavior but a rough estimate is obtained by taking the amount of gold you've found in
     the cave plus four times your (real) experience.  Precious stones may be worth a lot of gold when brought to the exit.  There is a 10%
     penalty for getting yourself killed.

     The administration of the game is kept in the directory specified with the -d option, or, if no such option is given, in the directory speci-
     fied by the environment variable HACKDIR, or, if no such variable exists, in the current directory.  This same directory contains several
     auxiliary files such as lockfiles and the list of topscorers and a subdirectory save where games are saved.  The game administrator may how-
     ever choose to install hack with a fixed playing ground, usually /var/games/hack.

     The -n option suppresses printing of the news.

     The -u playername option supplies the answer to the question "Who are you?".  When playername has as suffix one of -T, -S, -K, -F, -C, or -W,
     then this supplies the answer to the question "What kind of character ... ?".

     The -s option will print out the list of your scores.  It may be followed by arguments -X where X is one of the letters C, F, K, S, T, W to
     print the scores of Cavemen, Fighters, Knights, Speleologists, Tourists or Wizards.  It may also be followed by one or more player names to
     print the scores of the players mentioned.

AUTHORS

     Jay Fenlason (+ Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne) wrote the original hack, very much like rogue (but full of bugs).
     Andries Brouwer continuously deformed their sources into the current version - in fact an entirely different game.

FILES

     hack		       The hack program.
     data, rumors	       Data files used by hack.
     help, hh		       Help data files.
     record		       The list of topscorers.
     save		       A subdirectory containing the saved games.
     bones_dd		       Descriptions of the ghost and belongings of a deceased adventurer.
     xlock.dd		       Description of a dungeon level.
     safelock		       Lock file for xlock.
     record_lock	       Lock file for record.

ENVIRONMENT

     USER or LOGNAME	       Your login name.
     HOME		       Your home directory.
     SHELL		       Your shell.
     TERM		       The type of your terminal.
     HACKPAGER, PAGER	       Pager used instead of default pager.
     MAIL		       Mailbox file.
     MAILREADER 	       Reader used instead of default (probably /usr/bin/mail).
     HACKDIR		       Playground.
     HACKOPTIONS	       String predefining several hack options (see help file).

     Several other environment variables are used in debugging (wizard) mode, like GENOCIDED, INVENT, MAGIC and SHOPTYPE.

BUGS

     Probably infinite.  Mail complaints to mcvax!aeb .

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