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Instructions
Hunt the Wumpus is an old and simple game - the object is to kill the wumpus with one of the five arrows in your quiver. You are in a cave with twenty rooms, each of which have three passages leading from them. On each turn, you can choose to move into an adjoining room, or fire an arrow into one. But beware of the bottomless pits and the evil bats, not to mention the wumpus itself, who is looking for lunch.
The Cave
By default, you start in room 1 of a twenty room cave. Each cave has three tunnels leading out of it. Remember, the passages are one way, so just because there's a tunnel from room 1 to room 3, it doesn't necessarily mean there's a tunnel from 3 to 1.
The Wumpus
The wumpus usually stays put in a single room for the duration of the game. You can smell the wumpus if it is two or fewer tunnels away. If you walk into the wumpus' room, your chances of survival are slim, so try not to do it. One arrow shot into the correct room will kill the wumpus.
Bats and Pits
By default, two rooms contain bottomless pits and two rooms are the homes of bats. If you walk into a room with a pit, the chances are you'll fall down it and die - but if you're lucky you might avoid it.
The cave is also populated by bats. If you walk into one of the bats' rooms, the bat will take offence at you invading its lair, and will pick you up and drop you into a random room. It might well drop you down a pit or into the wumpus' room.
If you are one tunnel away from a bat or a bottomless pit, you will hear the bat or feel the pit's draught.
Shooting
You start with five arrows. Use them wisely - if you run out of arrows without killing the wumpus, you lose the game. If you shoot into a room containing a bat, you kill it. If you shoot into a room with a pit, you hear the arrow falling down the pit. So you can use arrows to locate pits and bats, but there is no way of reclaiming an arrow you've shot, so don't waste them. In this version, you can only shoot into adjacent rooms - you can't give the arrow a path to follow. This might change in future versions.