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WUMP(6)				  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 wump 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 arrows   Specifies  the  number of magic arrows the adventurer gets.
		   The default is five.

       -b bats	   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	gener-
		   ally	more dangerous cave.

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

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

       -t tunnels  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	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 al-
       ways 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 ar-
       rows.  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!

FreeBSD	Ports 14.quarterly	 May 31, 1993			       WUMP(6)

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