BSD games

BSD Games is a collection of the classic text based games distributed with some BSDs like FreeBSD and NetBSD.

The included games are, alphabetically:

• adventure - an exploration game
• arithmetic - quiz on simple arithmetic
• atc - air traffic controller game
• backgammon - the game of backgammon
• banner - print large banner on printer
• battlestar - a tropical adventure game
• bcd - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• boggle - word search game
• caesar - decrypt caesar cyphers
• canfield - the solitaire card game canfield
• cfscores - show scores for canfield
• cribbage - the card game cribbage
• fish - play Go Fish
• gomoku - game of 5 in a row
• hangman - Computer version of the game hangman
• hunt - a multi-player multi-terminal game
• huntd - hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
• mille - play Mille Bornes
• monop - Monopoly game
• morse - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• number - convert Arabic numerals to English
• phantasia - an interterminal fantasy game
• pom - display the phase of the moon
• ppt - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• primes - generate primes
• quiz - random knowledge tests
• rain - animated raindrops display
• random - random lines from a file or random numbers
• robots - fight off villainous robots
• rot13 - rot13 encrypt/decrypt
• sail - multi-user wooden ships and iron men
• snake - display chase game
• teachgammon - learn to play backgammon
• tetris-bsd - the game of tetris
• trek - trekkie game
• wargames - shall we play a game?
• worm - Play the growing worm game
• worms - animate worms on a display terminal
• wtf - translates acronyms for you
• wump - hunt the wumpus in an underground cave

By genre

Action games:

• hunt - a multi-player multi-terminal game
• worm - Play the growing worm game

Board games:

• backgammon - the game of backgammon
• gomoku - game of 5 in a row
• monop - Monopoly game

Card games:

• canfield - the solitaire card game canfield
• cribbage - the card game cribbage
• fish - play Go Fish
• mille - play Mille Bornes

Formatting fun:

• banner - print large banner on printer
• bcd - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• morse - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• number - convert Arabic numerals to English
• pig - eformatray inputway asway Igpay Atinlay
• ppt - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse code
• random - random lines from a file or random numbers
• rot13 - rot13 encrypt/decrypt

Puzzle/Quiz:

• arithmetic - quiz on simple arithmetic
• boggle - word search game
• hangman - Computer version of the game hangman
• robots - fight off villainous robots
• snake - display chase game
• tetris-bsd - the game of tetris
• quiz - random knowledge tests
• wump - hunt the wumpus in an underground cave

Role playing:

• adventure - an exploration game
• battlestar - a tropical adventure game
• phantasia - an interterminal fantasy game

"Screensavers":

• rain - animated raindrops display
• worms - animate worms on a display terminal

Simulation games:

• atc - air traffic controller game
• sail - multi-user wooden ships and iron men
• trek - trekkie game

Various calculations:

• caesar - decrypt caesar cyphers
• pom - display the phase of the moon
• primes - generate primes

Other:

• cfscores - show scores for canfield
• huntd - hunt daemon, back-end for hunt game
• snscore - show scores for snake
• teachgammon - learn to play backgammon
• wargames - shall we play a game?
• wtf - translates acronyms for you

The games are described in the manual, section 6. (man 6 random for instance).