boggle(6) [netbsd man page]

BOGGLE(6)							 BSD Games Manual							 BOGGLE(6)

NAME

     boggle -- word search game

SYNOPSIS

     boggle [-bd] [-s seed] [-t time] [-w length] [+ [+]] [boardspec]

DESCRIPTION

     The object of boggle is to find as many words as possible on the Boggle board within the three minute time limit.	A Boggle board is a four
     by four arrangement of Boggle cubes, each side of each cube displaying a letter of the alphabet or `qu'.  Words are formed by finding a
     sequence of cubes (letters) that are in the game's dictionary.  The (N+1)th cube in the word must be horizontally, vertically, or diagonally
     adjacent to the Nth cube.	Cubes cannot be reused.  Words consist solely of lower case letters and must be at least 3 letters long.

     Command line flags can be given to change the rules of the game.

     -b 	Run boggle in batch mode.  A boardspec must also be given.  The dictionary is read from stdin and a list of words appearing in
		boardspec is printed to stdout.

     -d 	Enable debugging output.

     -s seed	Specify a seed seed other than the time of day.

     -t time	Set the time limit for each game from the default 3 minutes to time seconds.

     -w length	Change the minimum word length from 3 letters to length.

     +		This flag allows a cube to be used multiple times, but not in succession.

     ++ 	This flag allows the same cubes to be considered adjacent to itself.

     boardspec	A starting board position can be specified on the command line by listing the board left to right and top to bottom.

     Help is available during play by typing '?'.  More detailed information on the game is given there.

AUTHORS

     Boggle is a trademark of Parker Brothers.

     Barry Brachman

     Dept. of Computer Science

     University of British Columbia

BUGS

     If there are a great many words in the cube the final display of the words may scroll off of the screen.  (On a 25 line screen about 130
     words can be displayed.)

     No word can contain a 'q' that is not immediately followed by a 'u'.

     When using the + or ++ options the display of words found in the board doesn't indicate reused cubes.

     The dictionary that NetBSD installs omits many words that belong in the English language, most notably inflected forms.

BSD
								September 23, 2006							       BSD

REVERSI(6)							   Games Manual 							REVERSI(6)

NAME

       reversi - a game of dramatic reversals

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/games/reversi [ [ -r ] file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Reversi (also known as `friends', `Chinese friends' and `Othello') is played on an 8x8 board using two-sided tokens.  Each player takes his
       turn by placing a token with his side up in an empty square.  During the first four turns, players may only place tokens in the	four  cen-
       tral  squares  of  the  board.	Subsequently, with each turn, a player must capture one or more of his opponent's tokens.  He does this by
       placing one of his tokens such that it and another of his tokens embrace a solid line of his opponent's horizontally, vertically or  diago-
       nally.	Captured tokens are flipped over and thus can be re-captured.  If a player cannot outflank his opponent he forfeits his turn.  The
       play continues until the board is filled or until no more outflanking is possible.

       In this game, your tokens are asterisks and the machine's are at-signs.	You move by typing in the row and column  at  which  you  want	to
       place your token as two digits (1-8), optionally separated by blanks or tabs.  You can also type

       c      to continue the game after hitting break (this is only necessary if you interrupt the machine while it is deliberating).

       g n    to start reversi playing against itself for the next n moves (or until the break key is hit).

       n      to stop printing the board after each move.

       o      to start it up again.

       p      to print the board regardless.

       q      to quit (without dishonor).

       s      to print the score.

       Reversi also recognizes several commands which are valid only at the start of the game, before any moves have been made.  They are

       f      to let the machine go first.

       h n    to  ask for a handicap of from one to four corner squares.  If you're good, you can give the machine a handicap by typing a negative
	      number.

       l n    to set the amount of lookahead used by the machine in searching for moves.  Zero means none at all. Four is  the	default.   Greater
	      than six means you may fall asleep waiting for the machine to move.

       t n    to  tell	reversi  that  you will only need n seconds to consider each move. If you fail to respond in the alloted time, you forfeit
	      your turn.

       If reversi is given a file name as an argument, it will checkpoint the game, move by move, by dumping the board onto file.  The	-r  option
       will cause reversi to restart the game from file and continue logging.

																	REVERSI(6)