nbsdgames
Interactive menu for the New BSD Games collection
TLDR
SYNOPSIS
nbsdgames
DESCRIPTION
nbsdgames launches an ncurses menu for the New BSD Games package, a collection of lightweight terminal games for Unix, DOS, and Plan 9. Running the command without arguments presents a numbered list of available games; selecting an entry starts that game.Individual games can also be invoked directly by name. The collection includes puzzle and board games such as nbmines, nbsudoku, nbreversi, nbbattleship, nbcheckers, nbfifteen, nbpipes, and others. Many games accept command-line options to adjust board size, difficulty, or dimensions.Requires ncurses (on Debian-based systems: libncurses5-dev for building, libncurses at runtime). Games are written in portable C and packaged for most major Linux distributions, BSD systems, Alpine, and Homebrew.
PARAMETERS
Individual games in the package accept their own options. Common patterns include -c and -r for columns and rows, -m for mine count, and --help for per-game usage. See each game's manual entry for details.
PREVIEW
New BSD Games 1 Jewels 2 Sudoku 3 Mines 4 Reversi > Select a game:
CAVEATS
Requires a terminal with ncurses support. Some distribution packages may ship older versions with fewer games than the upstream release. On Windows, games can run with PDCurses; Plan 9 and DOS ports also exist.
HISTORY
The New BSD Games collection was created by abakh as a modern companion to classic BSD games, adding original and improved text-mode implementations. Version 6.0.2 was released in June 2026 with 21 games. Individual games in the package are documented separately in this library.
SEE ALSO
nbmines(1), nbsudoku(1), nbreversi(1), nbbattleship(1), bsdgames(6)
