Terminal games

2048

Slide and merge number tiles until one of them reaches 2048.
  .    2    .    .
  .    4   16    2
  2    .    4    .
  .    .    2    8

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.
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 #..@.####..#
 #....#  #..#
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atc

Real-time air traffic control: route planes to runways and exits before they collide.
$ atc
 .  .  .  *  .  .
 .  A2 .  .  .  .
 .  .  .  .  B1 .
 .  .  C3 .  .  .

backgammon

The classic dice-and-checkers board game against the computer.
13 14 15 16 17 18
 O     X  X  O
 O        X  O
              O

battle 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.
 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.
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 # @ 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.
 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.
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 #..####
 #..@..#
 #.....#
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cribbage

The classic card game with pegging and a crib, against the computer.
 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.
 Bronx -> Manhattan
 Cocaine:  $15000
 Heroin:    $6300
 Cash: $2000  Debt: $5500

empire

Turn-based war game of exploration, production, and conquest.
 . . + . ~ ~ ~ ~
 . A . . ~ ~ ~ ~
 . . . . . ~ ~ ~
 ~ ~ . . . . ~ ~

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.
    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.
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.
 . . . . . . . .
 . . . X . . . .
 . . O X O . . .
 . . . X . . . .
 . . . O . . . .

greed

Clear the board: each number you step on is exactly how far your next move in that direction goes.
 4 7 2 9 1 3 8
 5 1 8 3 6 2 7
 9 3 @ 7 4 8 1
 2 6 5 1 9 4 3

hangman

Guess the word one letter at a time before the gallows are complete.
 +---+
 |   O
 |  /|\
 |   |
_|_
 _ a n g _ a n

hunt

Multiplayer maze shooter from BSD: hunt other players over the network.
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 #    #  # @  #
 # #  ####    #
 #        # X #
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interactive fiction

Frotz plays Z-machine interactive fiction, including the Infocom classics like Zork.
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.
 HAND: [Go] [25] [75]
 MILES: 425 / 1000
 SAFETY: [Right of Way]

mines

Minesweeper: open every square that is not a mine.
 . . 1 . . . .
 . 1 2 1 . . .
 . 1 # . . 1 1
 . 1 1 1 . 1 F

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.
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 #...#  #>#
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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.
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 |....|  ###  +...|
 |..@.|###   #|.>.|
 |.<..|      #|...|
 ------       -----

ninvaders

Space Invaders in ncurses.
 /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
 <> <> <> <> <>
 {} {} {} {} {}

      /A\

omega

A roguelike with a twist: a city, a countryside, and guilds beyond the dungeons.
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 #......#   CITY
 #..@...# [Tavern]
 #......# [Guild]
 #...>..# [Temple]
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pacman

Eat the dots, dodge the ghosts.
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 #o...#.....#
 #.##.#.###.#
 #C.........#
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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.
 .  |  .  .  .
 .  +--+  .  .
 .  .  |  .  .
 S--+  +--+  .

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.
        #
  .  &  @  %
     $
  ?     !

robots

Lure the chasing robots into crashing into each other.
 . . . . . . . . .
 . + . . . . + . .
 . . . . @ . . . .
 . . + . . . . + .
 . . . . . . . . .

rogue

The 1980 original that named the whole roguelike genre.
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 |.......+####
 |..@....|
 |.......|
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sail

Naval combat in the age of sail, from the BSD games collection.
 ~~~~~~~~  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.
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 |....|  ###  |...|
 |..@.|###   #|.>.|
 |....|      #|...|
 ------       -----

snake

Eat, grow, and do not bite your own tail.
 . . . . . . . . .
 . . ####o . . . .
 . . . . . . . X .
 . . . . . . . . .

solitaire

Classic single-player card games: Klondike (tty-solitaire) and Canfield.
 [Kh] [  ] [  ] [  ]
 [Ac] [2d] [3c]
 [##] [##] [##] [##]

sos

The pencil-and-paper game: form the sequence S-O-S to score.
 S O S . .
 . . S . .
 . . O . .
 . . S . .

star trek

Command the Enterprise and hunt Klingons across the galaxy in this 1970s classic.
 . . . . . * . .
 . * . . . . . .
 . . . E . . . .
 . . . . . K . .
 . * . . . . . .

sudoku

Fill the grid so every row, column, and box contains 1 to 9.
 5 3 . | . 7 . | . . .
 6 . . | 1 9 5 | . . .
 . 9 8 | . . . | . 6 .

tetris

Falling blocks; bastet cruelly always gives you the worst possible piece.
    []
    [][]
      []

  [][][]
    [][]
  [][][][]
  [][][][]

typespeed

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.
 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.
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