Slide and merge number tiles until one of them reaches 2048.
[2048](/man/2048)
. 2 . .
. 4 16 2
2 . 4 .
. . 2 8
The original 1977 Colossal Cave text adventure: explore a cave by typing commands.
[adventure](/man/adventure)
You are in a building.
> go west
You are in a valley.
Deep, Tolkien-themed dungeon roguelike; descend 100 levels to defeat Morgoth.
[angband](/man/angband)
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Real-time air traffic control: route planes to runways and exits before they collide.
[atc](/man/atc)
. . . * . .
. A2 . . . .
. . . . B1 .
. . C3 . . .
The classic dice-and-checkers board game against the computer.
[backgammon](/man/backgammon)
13 14 15 16 17 18
O X X O
O X O
O
A peer-to-peer battle royale on a shrinking ASCII island; last one standing wins.
[ascii-royale](/man/ascii-royale)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ . @ . o . ~
~ . ### . . ~
~ x . . . o ~
~~~ storm ~~~
Guess coordinates to sink the computer's hidden fleet.
[nbbattleship](/man/nbbattleship)
A B C D E F
1 ~ ~ X ~ ~ ~
2 ~ ~ ~ ~ O ~
3 ~ O ~ ~ ~ ~
4 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A BSD text adventure aboard a doomed starship.
[battlestar](/man/battlestar)
You are in the cockpit.
Strewn about are pieces
of broken instrumentation.
> look
Find as many words as possible in a 4x4 letter grid before time runs out.
[boggle](/man/boggle)
D O G S
R A T E
L I N K
P U M P
Bomb the skyscrapers flat so your ever-lower-flying plane can land.
[bombardier](/man/bombardier)
==>
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| | | |
|__|__|__|__|
Dig through caves, collect diamonds, and do not get crushed by falling boulders.
[cavezofphear](/man/cavezofphear)
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# @ o . . #
# . # o . #
# . . . * #
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Draughts against the computer.
[nbcheckers](/man/nbcheckers)
. x . x . x . x
x . x . x . x .
. . . . . . . .
o . o . o . o .
. o . o . o . o
Play chess against the GNU Chess engine.
[gnuchess](/man/gnuchess)
r n b q k b n r
p p p p p p p p
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: a modern, polished roguelike famous for its variety of species and gods.
[crawl](/man/crawl)
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The classic card game with pegging and a crib, against the computer.
[cribbage](/man/cribbage)
Your hand:
[5h] [5d] [Jc] [Kd]
Starter: [5s]
Points: 12
Fast-paced real-time strategy: grow your country and overrun the enemy.
[curseofwar](/man/curseofwar)
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~~.....12....####
Buy low, sell high, and pay off your debt in this trading game through New York's boroughs.
[dopewars](/man/dopewars)
Bronx -> Manhattan
Cocaine: $15000
Heroin: $6300
Cash: $2000 Debt: $5500
Turn-based war game of exploration, production, and conquest.
[empire](/man/empire)
. . + . ~ ~ ~ ~
. A . . ~ ~ ~ ~
. . . . . ~ ~ ~
~ ~ . . . . ~ ~
The 15-puzzle: slide numbered tiles into order using the one empty space.
[nbfifteen](/man/nbfifteen)
+--+--+--+--+
| 1| 2| 3| 4|
| 5| 6| 7| 8|
| 9|10|11|12|
|13|14|15| |
+--+--+--+--+
Play Go against the GNU Go engine.
[gnugo](/man/gnugo)
A B C D E F G
7 . . . . . . .
6 . . X . . . .
5 . X O X . . .
4 . . X O . . .
3 . . . . . . .
Collect books of four matching cards before the computer does.
[go-fish](/man/go-fish)
Your hand: 3 3 7 9 K
Got any 7s? y
I had a 7? Here!
Books won: 1
Get five stones in a row before the computer does.
[gomoku](/man/gomoku)
. . . . . . . .
. . . X . . . .
. . O X O . . .
. . . X . . . .
. . . O . . . .
Clear the board: each number you step on is exactly how far your next move in that direction goes.
[greed](/man/greed)
4 7 2 9 1 3 8
5 1 8 3 6 2 7
9 3 @ 7 4 8 1
2 6 5 1 9 4 3
Guess the word one letter at a time before the gallows are complete.
[hangman](/man/hangman)
+---+
| O
| /|\
| |
_|_
_ a n g _ a n
Multiplayer maze shooter from BSD: hunt other players over the network.
[hunt](/man/hunt)
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# # # @ #
# # #### #
# # X #
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Frotz plays Z-machine interactive fiction, including the Infocom classics like Zork.
[frotz](/man/frotz)
West of House
You are in an open
field west of a house.
>
Flip cards and find the matching pairs.
[nbmemoblocks](/man/nbmemoblocks)
[?] [?] [A] [?]
[?] [B] [?] [?]
[A] [?] [?] [B]
The French card racing game: drive 1000 miles while hitting opponents with flat tires.
[mille](/man/mille)
HAND: [Go] [25] [75]
MILES: 425 / 1000
SAFETY: [Right of Way]
Minesweeper: open every square that is not a mine.
[nbmines](/man/nbmines)
[freesweep](/man/freesweep)
. . 1 . . . .
. 1 2 1 . . .
. 1 # . . 1 1
. 1 1 1 . 1 F
Drive across the moon and jump the craters.
[moon-buggy](/man/moon-buggy)
*
o-:/ * *
/oo\___
______/ \________
Descend the dungeon to slay the Balrog; the roguelike that inspired angband.
[moria](/man/moria)
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A whole collection of curses mini games in one package: jewels, sudoku, mines, reversi, and more.
[nbsdgames](/man/nbsdgames)
New BSD Games
1 Jewels 2 Sudoku
3 Mines 4 Reversi
> Select a game:
The legendary dungeon roguelike where almost anything can be eaten, worn, thrown, or cursed.
[nethack-console](/man/nethack-console)
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|..@.|### #|.>.|
|.<..| #|...|
------ -----
Space Invaders in ncurses.
[ninvaders](/man/ninvaders)
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\
<> <> <> <> <>
{} {} {} {} {}
/A\
A roguelike with a twist: a city, a countryside, and guilds beyond the dungeons.
[omega-rpg](/man/omega-rpg)
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#......# CITY
#..@...# [Tavern]
#......# [Guild]
#...>..# [Temple]
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Eat the dots, dodge the ghosts.
[pacman4console](/man/pacman4console)
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#o...#.....#
#.##.#.###.#
#C.........#
############
Multiplayer fantasy role-playing: level your character from wanderer to council of the gods.
[phantasia](/man/phantasia)
Phantasia -- Level 3
HP: 45/60 Str: 12
Gold: 350 Gems: 2
You encounter a Troll!
Rotate and connect pipe segments before the water arrives.
[nbpipes](/man/nbpipes)
. | . . .
. +--+ . .
. . | . .
S--+ +--+ .
Othello: flip your opponent's discs by flanking them.
[nbreversi](/man/nbreversi)
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . O X . . .
. . . X O . . .
. . . . . . . .
A zen simulation: you are robot, one of these symbols is kitten, touch things to find out.
[robotfindskitten](/man/robotfindskitten)
#
. & @ %
$
? !
Lure the chasing robots into crashing into each other.
[robots](/man/robots)
. . . . . . . . .
. + . . . . + . .
. . . . @ . . . .
. . + . . . . + .
. . . . . . . . .
The 1980 original that named the whole roguelike genre.
[rogue](/man/rogue)
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|..@....|
|.......|
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Naval combat in the age of sail, from the BSD games collection.
[sail](/man/sail)
~~~~~~~~ Wind: NE
~~A~~~~~
~~~~B~~~~
~~~~~~~~~
A: Constitution
Time the take-off and landing to win the ski jumping cup.
[asciijump](/man/asciijump)
\O/
| /
/ \ /
______/________
90m K-point
A NetHack variant with more classes, monsters, and levels.
[slashem](/man/slashem)
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|..@.|### #|.>.|
|....| #|...|
------ -----
Eat, grow, and do not bite your own tail.
[nsnake](/man/nsnake)
[snake4](/man/snake4)
[worm](/man/worm)
. . . . . . . . .
. . ####o . . . .
. . . . . . . X .
. . . . . . . . .
Classic single-player card games: Klondike (tty-solitaire) and Canfield.
[tty-solitaire](/man/tty-solitaire)
[canfield](/man/canfield)
[Kh] [ ] [ ] [ ]
[Ac] [2d] [3c]
[##] [##] [##] [##]
The pencil-and-paper game: form the sequence S-O-S to score.
[nbsos](/man/nbsos)
S O S . .
. . S . .
. . O . .
. . S . .
Command the Enterprise and hunt Klingons across the galaxy in this 1970s classic.
[trek](/man/trek)
. . . . . * . .
. * . . . . . .
. . . E . . . .
. . . . . K . .
. * . . . . . .
Fill the grid so every row, column, and box contains 1 to 9.
[nudoku](/man/nudoku)
[nbsudoku](/man/nbsudoku)
5 3 . | . 7 . | . . .
6 . . | 1 9 5 | . . .
. 9 8 | . . . | . 6 .
Falling blocks; bastet cruelly always gives you the worst possible piece.
[tetris-bsd](/man/tetris-bsd)
[bastet](/man/bastet)
[vitetris](/man/vitetris)
[tint](/man/tint)
[]
[][]
[]
[][][]
[][]
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[][][][]
Type the words racing across the screen before they reach the other side.
[typespeed](/man/typespeed)
defend -->
score -->
compile ------>
result ------->
Hunt the Wumpus through a cave of connected rooms, armed with crooked arrows.
[wump](/man/wump)
You are in room 12.
I smell a Wumpus!
Tunnels lead to
3, 14, 15.
Move or shoot? (m-s)
An angband variant set in Roger Zelazny's Amber multiverse.
[zangband](/man/zangband)
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