WUMP(6)WUMP(6)NAMEwump - hunt the wumpus in an underground cave
SYNOPSISwump [-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.
-n 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 col-
lapse! 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 cre-
ated by the occasional bottomless pit and hear the rustle
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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 spec-
ify 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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