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 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!