About

Originally a strictly text game for the PC, this is a graphical version. Welcome! The game of Hunt the Wumpus was developed by Gregory Yob. It was first published by Creative Computing in their September/October 1975 issue. I began playing it during the early 1980s on a Texas Instruments TI99-4/A personal computer. The TI had 16 kbytes of RAM and a cassette recorder as a mass storage unit. The game was cartridge-based and featured 16 color graphics and simple monotone music. This version runs under any JavaScript 1.1-compatible browser, including Navigator 3.x, and requires approximately 1000 times as much RAM as my old TI version to run comfortably. Instructions You are hunting the wumpus in a completely dark cave system. Each cavern is connected to 3 others by tunnels. In each cave you will be told whether or not you hear bats, feel a draft, or smell a wumpus by looking at the messages in the text box. You begin the game armed with five arrows If you feel a draft then you are next to a cavern with a pit. If you go there you fall in the pit and die.The wumpus has suckers on its feet which prevents it from falling into a pit. If you hear bats you are next to a cavern that contains a superbat. If you go there you get picked up and carried by the bat to another cavern. The wumpus is very heavy which prevents the bats from grabbing it. If you smell a wumpus, you are next to a cavern that holds the wumpus. If you enter a cavern that holds a wumpus it will either exit through one of the tunnels or eat you. The wumpus is known to move between caverns in search of fresh meat. Each turn you can choose to move or fire an arrow into an adjacent tunnel. You do this by clicking on the fire or go buttons in the direction ofthe tunnel that you want to fire or go through. If an arrow enters a cavern that holds a wumpus he will either make a quick escape through one of the tunnels or stay in the room and get killed. When you fire an arrow, it will fly in a line to the edge of the maze, though it will only kill a wumpus in an adjacent cavern. You might find extra arrows left by previous hunters. The object is to kill the wumpus without getting killed first.