wump

wump [-s]

-s
    Display high score table and exit without playing.

Wump is a text-based game recreating the 1970s classic Hunt the Wumpus.

Players explore a maze of 25 rooms connected by tunnels. Hidden hazards include three bottomless pits, three flocks of bats, and the deadly wumpus. Entering a pit causes instant death; bats randomly relocate you; sharing a room with the wumpus means being eaten.

Sensory clues warn of dangers: stench near the wumpus, breezes from pits, and ultrasonic squeaks from bats. You start with five crooked arrows to shoot in sequences of up to five rooms, attempting to hit the wumpus.

Commands: h/l/j/k or n/s/e/w to move; a to shoot (specify direction sequence); c for cave map; i for inventory; q to quit; ?/h for help.

Victory comes from slaying the wumpus; defeat from hazards or exhaustion of arrows. Scores track top players. Ideal for terminal nostalgia, part of BSD games tradition.

Map the cave systematically using c command. Track hazards by clues. Conserve arrows; shoot only with high certainty.
Aim for adjacent rooms first.

Higher scores for fewer arrows used and moves taken. Top scores saved to /var/games/wumpus.highs or similar.

Based on Gregory Yob's 1973 Fortran game Hunt the Wumpus. Ported to C for 4.2BSD in 1983 as part of the games suite. Persists in modern Unix-like systems via bsdgames packages on Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu.

hunt(6), robots(6), snakes(6), trek(6)