What To Do After You Hit Return

Introduction
Preface
Welcome to the Games Book
Acknowledgments
Number Guessing Games
Number: A simple number-guessing game.
Abase: Guess my number…in base 2 or 5 or 8 or…
Trap: Trap my number. Then make the trap smaller and smaller and…
Stars: Guess the cosmic number. Win some stars for yourself.
Clocks: Read the metric code words and guess what time the computer has in mind.
Bagels: The Pico, Fermi, Bagels game—guess a three-digit number.
Quadgt: Bagels too easy? Try Quadgt.
Button: Button, button, who's got the button?
Word Games
Letter: There are 26 letters in the alphabet, but only 1 of them is it.
Abagel: Like Bagels, but here you try to guess the computer's 3-letter word.
Hangmn: The game of Hangman—guess the secret word, letter by letter.
Madlib: Complete a zany story by filling in the blanks—before you see the story.
Word: A scrambled word appears and you must unscramble it before your time runs out.
"Nimlike" Games
23Mtch: Starting with 23 matches, you and the computer take turns removing them.
Batnum: Set up your own game, then play against the computer.
Nim: You and the computer take stars from piles.
Chomp: The board is a big cookie, but one square is poison. Any number can chomp.
Zot: Use you zotter to your best advantage.
Hide & Seek in 2-Dimensional Grids
Hurkle: The Hurkle is a happy beast—find him if you can.
Mugwmp: Circles crossing circles will tell you where the Mugwump hides.
Snark: Catch the Snark with a well-placed circle.
Pattern Games
Dangle: Use the computer to make a dangling string of stars. For the very young.
Sunsgn: Your name and sunsign are used to create a unique artistic pattern.
Biosin: Charts your life's physical, sensitive, and cognitive cycles.
Mandal: Create your own Mandalas by choosing design parameters.
Life: John Conway's cellular board game.
Amaze: Creates a random maze. You choose how big.
Board games
Qubic5: 3-D tic-tac-toe. Choose a strategy level for the computer, then try to win.
Gomoku: The traditional Japanese game of five-in-a-row. Only here, you play the computer.
Teaser: Try to fill the 3-by-3 board with 1's everywhere except the center. Good luck!
Rover: Guide Rover Robot across a grid.
Welcome to the Caves
Caves1: Find your way out of the Caves. Three levels of difficulty.
Wumpus: Hunt the Wumpus in its world of caves, superbats, and bottomless pits.
Caves2: Like Caves1, but you set up the caves for a friend to solve.
Business & Social Science Simulations
Hamrbi: You are Hamurabi, the governor of ancient Sumeria.
King: If you survive your eight-year term, we congratulate you.
Civil2: A two-team simulation which recreates 14 Civil War battles. You can change the course of history.
Market: Two companies compete in a business simulation.
Stock: Play the Stock Market.
Policy: Six teams interact trying to manage the U.S. economy.
Polut: A Real-life simulation that permits you to create a water pollution situation and try to clean it up.
Science Fiction Games
Trader: Star Trader is an interstellar game of mercantile skill. Can be played lightly, or with passion.
Sttr1: You captain the starship Enterprise in interstellar battle.
Last Chapter
Crash: Land a space module on the planet of your choice.
Lunar: Try to land a spaceship on the moon.
Revers: Unscramble a list of numbers with your ingenuity and lots of patience.
Zeros: Two players build bridges until one player cannot move.
Taxman: Try to beat the Taxman. Factors are the keys to this one.
Selected Listings
Number Guessing Games
Number
Abase
Trap
Stars
Clocks
Bagels
Quadgt
Button
Word Games
Letter
Abagel
Hangmn
Madlib
Word
"Nimlike" games
23Mtch
Batnum
Nim
Chomp
Zot
Hide & Seek in 2-D
Hurkle
Mugwmp
Snark
Pattern Games
Dangle
Sunsgn
Mandal
Life
Amaze
Board Games
Teaser
Rover
Business & Social Science Simulations
Hamrbi
King
Civil2
Science Fiction Games
Trader
Last Chapter
Crash
Lunar
Revers
Zeros
Taxman
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