From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 22:08:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7FD6DB85-8A17-4FB9-BD54-306069C56F34@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201912100030.xBA0UNwL106373@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
> On Dec 9, 2019, at 5:30 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Moo and hunt-the-wumpus got quite a lot of play
> both in the lab and at home. Wump was an instant
> hit with my son who was 4 or 5 years old at the
> time.
>
> Amusingly, I speculated on how to generate degree-3
> graphs for wump, but obviously not very deeply. It
> was only much later that I realized the graph
> always had the same topology--a dodecahedron.
You know, maybe we’ve been looking at this wrong the whole time (I blame Yob).
Maybe the caves aren’t the vertices of a dodecahedron. Maybe they’re the faces of an icosahedron.
Adam
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2019-12-10 0:30 Doug McIlroy
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