The Museum of HP Calculators
The Museum of HP Calculators
This program is Copyright © HP and is used here by permission. It was originally printed in the Games Solution Book. This program was entered and uploaded by Tony Duell. The documentation was entered by Dave Hicks. The Barcode for this program was provided by Brian Ward.
This program is supplied without representation or warranty of any kind. Tony Duell, Hewlett Packard and The Museum of HP Calculators therefore assume no responsibility and shall have no liability, consequential or otherwise, of any kind arising from the use of this program material or any part thereof.
There are 20 caves each connected to 3 others. There are 6 occupied caves: 2 with super bats, 2 with pits, 1 with a wumpus, and 1 with a hunter (you). The object is to move from cave to cave, watching the warnings to see what is nearby, find the wumpus and shoot it with an arrow. You may only move or shoot into an adjacent cave.
The warnings are as follows:
"SMELL WUMPUS" -- The wumpus is in an adjacent cave.
"FEEL A DRAFT" -- Pits are in adjacent cave(s).
"HEAR SQUEAKS" -- Super bats are in adjacent cave (s ) .
If you walk into the cave with the wumpus he will eat you. If you shoot an arrow and miss (by shooting into the wrong cave), you wake the wumpus up and he moves to one of his adjacent caves. If it's the cave you are in, he eats you. Since he has sucker feet he can walk into a cave with pits without falling. And, since he is too heavy for the bats, they cannot bother him. If you walk into a cave with pits, you fall and the game is ended. If you walk into a cave with super bats, they will carry you to some other cave randomly chosen. If the wumpus, pits, or more super bats are there, you will suffer their consequences. The bats then return to their original cave.
Each time you move you will first see the consequences (if any) of your move: "CHOMP" means you've been eaten by the wumpus, "YYIIIEEEE..." means you've fallen into a pit, and "SNATCH" followed by "MOVED TO ( )" means the super bats have grabbed you and moved you. After the consequences you see any warnings that are appropriate. Last, you will see the cave you are in followed by your adjacent caves.
The caves are arranged as a dodechedron with each vertex being a cave and each edge a tunnel.
Note: Requires 1 Memory Module on HP-41C
Step |
Instructions |
Input Data/Units |
Keys |
Output Data/Units |
1 |
Enter program |
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2 |
Initialize |
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[XEQ] WUMPUS |
SEED? |
3 |
Key in number between 0 and 1 | seed |
[R/S] |
(warnings) |
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(caves) |
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4 |
To move: |
cave # |
[A] |
(consequences) |
(warnings) |
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(caves) |
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5 |
To shoot an arrow: |
cave # |
[B] |
(consequences) |
(warnings) |
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(caves) |
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6 |
To see warnings and caves again: | [C] |
(warnings) |
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(caves) |
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7 |
For another game: |
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[E] |
(warnings) |
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(caves) |
8 |
Go to step 4 or 5. |
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Keystrokes: Display: [XEQ] [ALPHA] SIZE [ALPHA] 012 [XEQ] [ALPHA] WUMPUS [ALPHA] SEED? .1232123 [R/S] HEAR SQUEAKS [R/S] 6-1,7,15 1 [A] SNATCH [R/S] MOVED TO 3 [R/S] HEAR SQUEAKS [R/S] 3-4,2,10 10 [A] FEEL A DRAFT [R/S] 10-3,11,9 11 [A] SMELL WUMPUS [R/S] 11-18,12,10 12 [B] 11-18,12,10 18 [A] SMELL WUMPUS [R/S] 18-11,19,17 19 [B] 18-11,19,17 17 [A] SMELL WUMPUS [R/S] FEEL A DRAFT [R/S] 17-9,18,16 9 [A] YYIIIEEEE
(Note that you should have known pits were there from your pass through cave 10 and its warnings.)
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LINE KEYS 01 LBL "WUMPUS" 02 0 03 "SEED?" 04 PROMPT 05 STO 00 06 SF 27 07 LBL E 08 FIX 00 09 CF 29 10 1.006 11 STO 10 12 LBL 13 13 RCL 10 14 INT 15 1 16 - 17 STO 11 18 20 19 XEQ 99 20 1 21 + 22 LBL 12 23 RCL IND 11 24 X<>Y 25 X=Y? 26 GTO 13 27 DSE 11 28 GTO 12 29 STO IND 10 30 ISG 10 31 GTO 13 32 LBL C 33 LBL 20 34 RCL 01 35 XEQ 50 36 "SMELL WUMPUS" 37 RCL 02 38 XEQ 21 39 "FEEL A DRAFT" 40 RCL 03 41 XEQ 21 42 RCL 04 43 XEQ 21 44 "HEAR SQUEEKS" 45 RCL 05 46 XEQ 21 47 RCL 06 48 XEQ 21 49 LBL 22 50 CLA 51 ARCL 01 52 "- " 53 ARCL 07 54 "
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