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1.1     ! root        1: .TH GAMES 1
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: 4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon \- time wasters
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B games/4s
        !             6: .br
        !             7: .B games/5s
        !             8: .br
        !             9: .B games/ana
        !            10: [
        !            11: .I fixwords
        !            12: ]
        !            13: .br
        !            14: .B games/mandel
        !            15: .br
        !            16: .B games/plumb
        !            17: [
        !            18: .I level
        !            19: ]
        !            20: .br
        !            21: .B games/smiley
        !            22: .br
        !            23: .B games/life
        !            24: .I startfile
        !            25: .br
        !            26: .B games/fsim
        !            27: .br
        !            28: .B games/clock
        !            29: .br
        !            30: .B games/catclock
        !            31: [
        !            32: .B -c
        !            33: ]
        !            34: .br
        !            35: .B games/fireworks
        !            36: .br
        !            37: .B games/swar
        !            38: .br
        !            39: .B games/festoon
        !            40: [
        !            41: .B -p
        !            42: ]
        !            43: [
        !            44: .B -e
        !            45: ]
        !            46: [
        !            47: .B -t
        !            48: ]
        !            49: [
        !            50: .B -sseed
        !            51: ]
        !            52: [
        !            53: .I len
        !            54: ]
        !            55: [
        !            56: .I pfn
        !            57: ]
        !            58: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            59: There are a few games in
        !            60: .BR /bin/games :
        !            61: .TP \w'\fLfireworksXX'u
        !            62: .BR 4s , " 5s"
        !            63: Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles.
        !            64: Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse.
        !            65: Rotate tiles with buttons 1 and 3.
        !            66: Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.
        !            67: .TP
        !            68: .B ana
        !            69: Find anagrams for words typed on standard input.
        !            70: Anagrams can contain several dictionary words.
        !            71: The
        !            72: .I fixwords
        !            73: argument or numbers typed on standard input fix the number of
        !            74: words in the output anagrams.
        !            75: .TP
        !            76: .B mandel
        !            77: Compute and display Mandelbrot sets.
        !            78: Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.
        !            79: .TP
        !            80: .B plumb
        !            81: Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil
        !            82: and don't waste pipe. The
        !            83: .I level
        !            84: argument lets you start at a harder level.
        !            85: .TP
        !            86: .B smiley
        !            87: A game of historical importance.
        !            88: Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.
        !            89: .TP
        !            90: .B life
        !            91: Play the game of life, given an initial position.
        !            92: There is a library of interesting initial positions;
        !            93: the library is consulted if
        !            94: .I startfile
        !            95: cannot be found.
        !            96: .TP
        !            97: .B fsim
        !            98: Pretend you're flying a Cessna.
        !            99: .TP
        !           100: .BR clock , " catclock
        !           101: Display analog clocks.  Option
        !           102: .B -c
        !           103: makes
        !           104: .I catclock
        !           105: crosseyed.
        !           106: .TP
        !           107: .B fireworks
        !           108: Hoist the fiery blue peter.
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .B swar
        !           111: Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT.
        !           112: One player types
        !           113: .B a
        !           114: or
        !           115: .B d
        !           116: to turn left or right,
        !           117: .B s
        !           118: to shoot,
        !           119: .B x
        !           120: to enter hyperspace,
        !           121: and
        !           122: .B w
        !           123: to accelerate.
        !           124: The other player uses
        !           125: .LR k ,
        !           126: .BR ; ,
        !           127: .BR l ,
        !           128: .BR .
        !           129: and
        !           130: .BR o .
        !           131: AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or otherwise
        !           132: causes mayhem.  Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.
        !           133: .TP
        !           134: .B festoon
        !           135: Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces
        !           136: pictures
        !           137: .RB ( -p ),
        !           138: tables
        !           139: .RB ( -t ),
        !           140: and equations
        !           141: .RB ( -e ).
        !           142: The seed can be set to recreate a specific document.
        !           143: .B Len
        !           144: is sentence length, and 
        !           145: .B pfn
        !           146: is percent faked nouns (default 0).
        !           147: .SH FILES
        !           148: .TF /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
        !           149: .TP
        !           150: .B /sys/games/lib/4scores
        !           151: scores of
        !           152: .I 4s
        !           153: games
        !           154: .TP
        !           155: .B /sys/games/lib/5scores
        !           156: scores of
        !           157: .I 5s
        !           158: games
        !           159: .TP
        !           160: .B /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
        !           161: scores of
        !           162: .I plumb
        !           163: games
        !           164: .TP
        !           165: .B /sys/games/lib/anawords
        !           166: used by
        !           167: .I ana
        !           168: .TP
        !           169: .B /sys/games/lib/plumb/*
        !           170: miscellaneous files used by
        !           171: .I plumb
        !           172: .TP
        !           173: .B /sys/games/lib/life/*
        !           174: interesting starting positions
        !           175: .SH SOURCE
        !           176: .B /sys/src/games

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