From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0f540b8f for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 00:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 354659C5EE; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:47:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D91D9BDD8; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:46:46 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="G2//eqQy"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5C4899BCCF; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:46:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-qk1-f170.google.com (mail-qk1-f170.google.com [209.85.222.170]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC44D9B57D for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:46:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-qk1-f170.google.com with SMTP id k6so11617226qki.5 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:46:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :to:in-reply-to:message-id; bh=fcQFHdPyedcZdgqkskHYqmeu5DOEq9e+L9hRlMf+XEI=; b=G2//eqQyGyov8SFfs15WVihIczDokvxvZ7ycczMkFf+BuJ9TxRqTB3wkydeOUASFRT kLsgnX8fmyeYlcEEjqubin7b0Cfzl7yTV130IY9p7iJgQbhbMPoWHbISmmdFGoUBuS+/ F66o9KYrGASXMhrxoLjSxL8iEXpWD0MLIVhJMBdUMPLdNVb0rxMuREgSUG//H9bT/a6k j1iEHEGjDWjP4vGigxA3qxk+DI4QM2uKLb0pTXyuX/Qqaj8VSRPb/PJRJZFO+aP9BScy Nv04Oqeu1W3ZqLmGcwS7TpB2HXO0955QFOLPffP78UyBZUZu4UoKyFwQWjdCAQFgpx+k Vbjg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:to:in-reply-to:message-id; bh=fcQFHdPyedcZdgqkskHYqmeu5DOEq9e+L9hRlMf+XEI=; b=LQoPlpQEFNCqyXcTzlaEfZso4yQHgvdXYv8hRlW/S1mxueTk5QXigFuzZ8h8bTaHcV 2FC+Sz198sBAJBQGA5l9SLRDOkwJuzcA28mSTjfNrlYGq6ZHzSxJ0me0qhy+uFLKZF0o nIsj2CgMOUb4TJ57Rh5sYu6z0vuaBEVj0XOppBNUDy4MJJKDdkBRHXManNGDwGEoDuFi 7l8Fab9Q0W6W4ApDBCx1b+qNm7dE9FY8J6WpnoxgYMxHXYaDo4sV8iF2a3Z+Kzoyklcu dgwfm/tE/gdwqcfft1AU+zWRZf7g9dqXxZoup7Rg5ODvau4ztWOWHjjo10vQ0r2BPHLH iakA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWCVjkcF/foyX5lZ/LQuosZ6S6ZOPm3z7n/Mt+1EOMdGKlZQMJx t3Lngqh9UrDfEECYMjtWSFw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwlb1VNYOKNtYR1DLNYZoJrUP5VzuwwwdCscWOjTLF6aRbc3aCIMZcOEt0V9k86KBbcR4qCCA== X-Received: by 2002:a37:e210:: with SMTP id g16mr3534420qki.413.1575852401850; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2600:8800:7c80:98b:63:7d7d:8035:436? ([2600:8800:7c80:98b:63:7d7d:8035:436]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k31sm9162069qtd.64.2019.12.08.16.46.40 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:46:40 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Thornton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.0 \(3601.0.10\)) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:46:38 -0700 References: <3d1053b0debfc5a79267860e058b1d07e7686811@webmail.yaccman.com> To: Ken Thompson , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <25D66740-7832-4BE9-877E-7F4C905B4195@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3601.0.10) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > On Dec 8, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS = wrote: >=20 > in the early 70s, noone had seen a computer. > i had a terminal at home and we were giving > a dinner party. i wrote several games for the > party from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle > book. >=20 > the ones i remember: >=20 > moo (bulls + cows) > hunt the wumpus (move or shoot) > learning tic-tac-toe > i can guess your number (divide and conquer) > jealous husbands (similar to fox hen corn) > nim >=20 > i think there were more. they went over > pretty well at the party. >=20 > i think this was 1969 or 1970. Clarification, please. Was =E2=80=9CHunt the Wumpus=E2=80=9D from the back of an off-the-shelf = puzzle book? I thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative = Computing BASIC Computer Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More = BASIC Computer Games), and, well, it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal = geometry, which seems as if it would only have been found in a rather = rarefied puzzle book, but does seem like the sort of Platonic solid a = computer-programming nerd in the early 1970s would have known about. Adam=