GAMES(1)

NAME

4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon − time wasters

SYNOPSIS

games/4s
games/5s
games/ana [ fixwords ]
games/mandel
games/plumb [ level ]
games/smiley
games/life startfile
games/fsim
games/clock
games/catclock [ -c ]
games/fireworks
games/swar
games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ]

DESCRIPTION

There are a few games in /bin/games:

4s, 5s Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles. Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse. Rotate tiles with buttons 1 and 3. Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.

ana Find anagrams for words typed on standard input. Anagrams can contain several dictionary words. The fixwords argument or numbers typed on standard input fix the number of words in the output anagrams.

mandel Compute and display Mandelbrot sets. Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.

plumb Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil and don’t waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a harder level.

smiley A game of historical importance. Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.

life Play the game of life, given an initial position. There is a library of interesting initial positions; the library is consulted if startfile cannot be found.

fsim Pretend you’re flying a Cessna.

clock, catclock
Display analog clocks. Option -c makes catclock crosseyed.

fireworks Hoist the fiery blue peter.

swar Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT. One player types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter hyperspace, and w to accelerate. The other player uses k, ;, l, . and o. AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or otherwise causes mayhem. Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.

festoon Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e). The seed can be set to recreate a specific document. Len is sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0).

FILES

/sys/games/lib/4scores scores of 4s games

/sys/games/lib/5scores scores of 5s games

/sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
scores of plumb games

/sys/games/lib/anawords used by ana

/sys/games/lib/plumb/∗ miscellaneous files used by plumb

/sys/games/lib/life/∗ interesting starting positions

SOURCE

/sys/src/games