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.

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