bionic (6) animals.6.gz

NAME

       animals - traditional AI game that learns about animals from the player

SYNOPSIS

       animals [DatabaseFile [TypeString [PluralTypeString]]]

       or

       animals {-h|--help}

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the animals game.  animals is a text-based animal guessing game.

RULES

       You think of an animal, and hit enter when you have one.  Then the game asks you yes-or-no questions that
       successively narrows down your animal. Eventually, the game will make a guess, and  ask  you  if  it  was
       right. If it was wrong, you win! You then teach it about your animal.

FILES

       /var/games/animals/animals.db

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was originally written by Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu> (for the Debian GNU/Linux system).
       The current Author is Philipp "ph3-der-loewe" Schafft <lion@lion.leolix.org>.

HISTORY

       animals was initially released on Fri, 4th of Jun 1999.  On Fri, 16th of Jul 2010 the  first  non  Debian
       native  version  was  released.   This  was  part of the takeover by Philipp Schafft (see AUTHORS) of the
       Debian as it was orphaned. On Wed, 27th of Jun 2012 he  abdicated  Debian  maintainership  but  is  still
       upstream author.

                                                    July 2012                                         ANIMALS(6)