Wumpus!: A Diversionary Tale

Moby ID: 79422

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Released

December 11, 1999 on Macintosh

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Publishers

Codenautics, LLC

Developers

Codenautics, LLC

Moby Score: n/a

Genre: Puzzle
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Pacing: Turn-based
Interface: Point and select

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Description

Wumpus!: A Diversionary Tale is the classic game of Hunt the Wumpus, implemented with some new enhancements for the classic Mac platform. You explore a maze of caverns, equipped with a lantern, blasting sticks, and a canary. Using various clues, you have to avoid hazards and deduce the location of the legendary Wumpus before stumbling onto it.

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Hunt the Wumpus variants

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MobyGames ID: 79422

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Game added by Joseph Strout.

Game added August 17, 2016. Last modified February 12, 2023.