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The Wumpus is a monster that lives in a cave of 20 rooms, connected by tunnels, in the shape of a dodecahedron - each room connects to three others. You start in one room, with five 'crooked arrows' that can fly around corners. The game gives you your room number, the numbers of the three rooms connected to yours, and warns you if Super Bats, [[Bottomless Pits]], or the Wumpus are in an adjacent room. But it doesn't tell you which of the three rooms the warning is coming from. By wandering from room to room, you build a map that can reveal the location of the Wumpus. Once you know that, you can shoot an arrow from up to five rooms away and guide it to the kill.

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* [[The Archer]]

* [[Bottomless Pits]]: The [[Ur Example]].

* [[Event Flag]]: Shoot an arrow in one part of the cave, and the Wumpus in some other part of the cave will hear it, wake up, and move.

* [[Foreboding Architecture]]: Foreboding descriptive text.

** Bats: "Bats nearby!"

* [[Have a Nice Death]]: If you kill yourself with an arrow: "Hee hee hee - the wumpus'll get you the next time!"

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Laying in a course for an arrow like it's a cruise missile.

* [[Press X to Die]]: Set your arrow for a flight that ends in your room.

* [[The Seventies]]: Very popular in the days of type-in BASIC programs.

* [[Trick Shot Puzzle]]

 

 

* [[Difficulty Levels]]

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[[Category:The Seventies]]

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