GAMES(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GAMES(1)

NAME

       4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon - time wasters

SYNOPSIS

       games/4s
       games/5s
       games/ana [ fixwords ]
       games/mandel
       games/plumb [ level ]
       games/smiley
       games/life startfile
       games/fsim
       games/clock
       games/catclock [ -c ]
       games/fireworks
       games/swar
       games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ]

DESCRIPTION

       There are a few games in /bin/games:

       4s, 5s	  Try  to  fill  complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles.  Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse.  Rotate tiles with
		  buttons 1 and 3.  Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.

       ana	  Find anagrams for words typed on standard input.  Anagrams can contain several dictionary words.  The fixwords argument or  num-
		  bers typed on standard input fix the number of words in the output anagrams.

       mandel	  Compute and display Mandelbrot sets.	Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.

       plumb	  Build  a  plumbing  system.  Keep ahead of the advancing oil and don't waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a harder
		  level.

       smiley	  A game of historical importance.  Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.

       life	  Play the game of life, given an initial position.  There is a library of interesting initial positions; the library is consulted
		  if startfile cannot be found.

       fsim	  Pretend you're flying a Cessna.

       clock, catclock
		  Display analog clocks.  Option -c makes catclock crosseyed.

       fireworks  Hoist the fiery blue peter.

       swar	  Space  war  for two players called MCI and SPRINT.  One player types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter hyper-
		  space, and w to accelerate.  The other player uses ;, l, .  and o.  AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or  otherwise
		  causes mayhem.  Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.

       festoon	  Traditional  radical	monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e).  The seed can be
		  set to recreate a specific document.	Len is sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0).

FILES

       /sys/games/lib/4scores
	      scores of 4s games

       /sys/games/lib/5scores
	      scores of 5s games

       /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
	      scores of plumb games

       /sys/games/lib/anawords
	      used by ana

       /sys/games/lib/plumb/*
	      miscellaneous files used by plumb

       /sys/games/lib/life/*
	      interesting starting positions

SOURCE

       /sys/src/games

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