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1Welcome to the game of Hunt the Wumpus.
2
3The Wumpus typically lives in a cave of twenty rooms, where each room
4is connected by three tunnels to the other rooms in the cavern.  Caves
5may vary, however, depending on options specified when starting the game.
6The cave may contain one-way passages.
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8The game has the following hazards for intrepid adventurers to wend their
9way through:
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11  Pits   -- If you fall into one of the bottomless pits, you find yourself
12	    slung back out on the far side of the Earth and in very poor
13	    shape to continue your quest since you're dead.
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15  Bats   -- As with any other cave, the Wumpus cave has bats in residence.
16	    These are a bit more potent, however, and if you stumble into
17	    one of their rooms they will rush up and carry you elsewhere in
18	    the cave.
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20  Wumpus -- If you happen to walk into the room the Wumpus is in you'll find
21	    that he has quite an appetite for young adventurous humans!  Not
22	    recommended.
23
24The Wumpus, by the way, is not bothered by the hazards since he has sucker
25feet and is too big for the bats to lift.  If you try to shoot him and miss,
26there's also a chance that he'll up and move himself into another room,
27though by nature the Wumpus is a sedentary creature.
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29Each turn you may either move or shoot a crooked arrow.  Moving is done
30simply by specifying "m" for move and the number of the room that you'd
31like to move down a tunnel towards.  Shooting is done similarly; indicate
32that you'd like to shoot one of your magic arrows with an "s" for shoot,
33then list a set of connected room numbers through which the deadly shaft
34should fly!
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36If a tunnel does not exist between two consecutive rooms in the arrow's
37path, the arrow will flail about and randomly pick an existing tunnel
38to continue through.  You might just end up shooting yourself in the
39foot if you're not careful!  On the other hand, if you shoot the Wumpus
40you've WON!
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42Good luck.
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