wump - hunt the wumpus in an underground cave
wump [-ho] [-a arrows] [-b bats] [-p pits] [-r rooms] [-t
tunnels]
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.
-o Play the original version, where there are twenty
rooms arranged
on the vertices of a dodecahedron, connected by the
edges. In
this case, the default is two pits and two bat
rooms.
-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
easily 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 topology,
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 creature,
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!
OpenBSD 3.6 May 31, 1993
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