Terminal games
2048
Slide and merge number tiles until one of them reaches 2048.$ 2048
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adventure
The original 1977 Colossal Cave text adventure: explore a cave by typing commands.You are in a building. > go west You are in a valley.
angband
Deep, Tolkien-themed dungeon roguelike; descend 100 levels to defeat Morgoth.$ angband
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atc
Real-time air traffic control: route planes to runways and exits before they collide.$ atc
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backgammon
The classic dice-and-checkers board game against the computer.13 14 15 16 17 18
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Obattle royale
A peer-to-peer battle royale on a shrinking ASCII island; last one standing wins.~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ . @ . o . ~ ~ . ### . . ~ ~ x . . . o ~ ~~~ storm ~~~
battleship
Guess coordinates to sink the computer's hidden fleet.A B C D E F 1 ~ ~ X ~ ~ ~ 2 ~ ~ ~ ~ O ~ 3 ~ O ~ ~ ~ ~ 4 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
battlestar
A BSD text adventure aboard a doomed starship.You are in the cockpit. Strewn about are pieces of broken instrumentation. > look
boggle
Find as many words as possible in a 4x4 letter grid before time runs out.$ boggle
D O G S R A T E L I N K P U M P
bombardier
Bomb the skyscrapers flat so your ever-lower-flying plane can land.==> ____ | | | | |__|__|__|__|
boulder dash
Dig through caves, collect diamonds, and do not get crushed by falling boulders.########### # @ o . . # # . # o . # # . . . * # ###########
checkers
Draughts against the computer.. x . x . x . x x . x . x . x . . . . . . . . . o . o . o . o . . o . o . o . o
chess
Play chess against the GNU Chess engine.$ gnuchess
r n b q k b n r p p p p p p p p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P P P P P P P P R N B Q K B N R
crawl
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: a modern, polished roguelike famous for its variety of species and gods.$ crawl
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cribbage
The classic card game with pegging and a crib, against the computer.$ cribbage
Your hand: [5h] [5d] [Jc] [Kd] Starter: [5s] Points: 12
curseofwar
Fast-paced real-time strategy: grow your country and overrun the enemy.~~~~~~~~.....#### ~~~~~...1....#### ~~~....111...#### ~~.....12....####
dopewars
Buy low, sell high, and pay off your debt in this trading game through New York's boroughs.$ dopewars
Bronx -> Manhattan Cocaine: $15000 Heroin: $6300 Cash: $2000 Debt: $5500
empire
Turn-based war game of exploration, production, and conquest.$ empire
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fifteen
The 15-puzzle: slide numbered tiles into order using the one empty space.+--+--+--+--+ | 1| 2| 3| 4| | 5| 6| 7| 8| | 9|10|11|12| |13|14|15| | +--+--+--+--+
go
Play Go against the GNU Go engine.$ gnugo
A B C D E F G 7 . . . . . . . 6 . . X . . . . 5 . X O X . . . 4 . . X O . . . 3 . . . . . . .
go-fish
Collect books of four matching cards before the computer does.$ go-fish
Your hand: 3 3 7 9 K Got any 7s? y I had a 7? Here! Books won: 1
gomoku
Get five stones in a row before the computer does.$ gomoku
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greed
Clear the board: each number you step on is exactly how far your next move in that direction goes.$ greed
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hangman
Guess the word one letter at a time before the gallows are complete.$ hangman
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hunt
Multiplayer maze shooter from BSD: hunt other players over the network.$ hunt
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interactive fiction
Frotz plays Z-machine interactive fiction, including the Infocom classics like Zork.$ frotz
West of House You are in an open field west of a house. >
memory
Flip cards and find the matching pairs.[?] [?] [A] [?] [?] [B] [?] [?] [A] [?] [?] [B]
mille bornes
The French card racing game: drive 1000 miles while hitting opponents with flat tires.$ mille
HAND: [Go] [25] [75] MILES: 425 / 1000 SAFETY: [Right of Way]
mines
Minesweeper: open every square that is not a mine.$ nbmines
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moon-buggy
Drive across the moon and jump the craters.* o-:/ * * /oo\___ ______/ \________
moria
Descend the dungeon to slay the Balrog; the roguelike that inspired angband.$ moria
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nbsdgames
A whole collection of curses mini games in one package: jewels, sudoku, mines, reversi, and more.New BSD Games 1 Jewels 2 Sudoku 3 Mines 4 Reversi > Select a game:
nethack
The legendary dungeon roguelike where almost anything can be eaten, worn, thrown, or cursed.------ ----- |....| ### +...| |..@.|### #|.>.| |.<..| #|...| ------ -----
omega
A roguelike with a twist: a city, a countryside, and guilds beyond the dungeons.######## #......# CITY #..@...# [Tavern] #......# [Guild] #...>..# [Temple] ########
pacman
Eat the dots, dodge the ghosts.############ #o...#.....# #.##.#.###.# #C.........# ############
phantasia
Multiplayer fantasy role-playing: level your character from wanderer to council of the gods.Phantasia -- Level 3 HP: 45/60 Str: 12 Gold: 350 Gems: 2 You encounter a Troll!
pipes
Rotate and connect pipe segments before the water arrives.$ nbpipes
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reversi
Othello: flip your opponent's discs by flanking them.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O X . . . . . . X O . . . . . . . . . . .
robotfindskitten
A zen simulation: you are robot, one of these symbols is kitten, touch things to find out. #
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Lure the chasing robots into crashing into each other.$ robots
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rogue
The 1980 original that named the whole roguelike genre.$ rogue
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sail
Naval combat in the age of sail, from the BSD games collection.$ sail
~~~~~~~~ Wind: NE ~~A~~~~~ ~~~~B~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ A: Constitution
ski jump
Time the take-off and landing to win the ski jumping cup.\O/ | / / \ / ______/________ 90m K-point
slashem
A NetHack variant with more classes, monsters, and levels.$ slashem
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snake
Eat, grow, and do not bite your own tail.$ nsnake
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$ worm
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solitaire
Classic single-player card games: Klondike (tty-solitaire) and Canfield.$ canfield
[Kh] [ ] [ ] [ ] [Ac] [2d] [3c] [##] [##] [##] [##]
sos
The pencil-and-paper game: form the sequence S-O-S to score.$ nbsos
S O S . . . . S . . . . O . . . . S . .
star trek
Command the Enterprise and hunt Klingons across the galaxy in this 1970s classic.$ trek
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sudoku
Fill the grid so every row, column, and box contains 1 to 9.$ nudoku
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5 3 . | . 7 . | . . . 6 . . | 1 9 5 | . . . . 9 8 | . . . | . 6 .
tetris
Falling blocks; bastet cruelly always gives you the worst possible piece.$ bastet
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Type the words racing across the screen before they reach the other side.defend --> score --> compile ------> result ------->
wumpus
Hunt the Wumpus through a cave of connected rooms, armed with crooked arrows.$ wump
You are in room 12. I smell a Wumpus! Tunnels lead to 3, 14, 15. Move or shoot? (m-s)
zangband
An angband variant set in Roger Zelazny's Amber multiverse.$ zangband
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