Please help me collect data for comparison with my hunt the wumpus AI. I need a bunch of human players to help me collect data.

The `wump' game can be found easily enough on the internet (it is part of the standard BSD games package, here's a link: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-4-0/src/games/wump). Here is a 32-bit and 64-bit pre-compiled binary:

Wump is a simple (and very boring and frustrating) game where you explore a 20 room cave to try and kill the evil wumpus. Each room in this cave has three unidirectional tunnels leaving it that go into other rooms. In addition to the evil wumpus the cave is full of pits (there are three pits). Pits make a draft that you can feel from one room away. Also, the wumpus smells really bad (you can smell the wumpus from two rooms away).

In order to accomplish your task of killing the evil wumpus, you are given 5 magical (bent) arrows that can travel a crooked path through the cave given a list of adjacent rooms.

If you want some better instructions, the game prompts you at the beginning. (Ignore the instructions about bats, I disabled them for now so that my AI will be a bit easier).

I recommend using a piece of paper and a pencil (optional) when playing to help you map the cave.

I wrote a simple harness program that you can use to help me collect some very basic statistics about your playing (if you won or lost, how many moves you made and the amount of time that you took). This harness program will execute the `wump' program if it is in your $PATH. If you don't trust my binaries, I can get you the source. By the way, I have reports that it crashes on occasion... just ignore that and start another game.

When you play please use the program `script' (script records a shell session into a text file, which by default is called `typescript' after you exit from the script). The `typescript' output of you playing is the data file that I would like to collect from you.

Thanks!