Debian Junior Project
Summary
games-text
Debian Jr. Text Games

The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)

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animals
Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB
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sid201207131226-2.2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie201207131226-2.2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm201207131226-2.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye201207131226-2.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster201207131226-2.1amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
stretch201207131226-2+deb9u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package animals:
gametoys
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
usegameplaying
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 License: DFSG free

You think of an animal, and this package tries to guess it... when it's wrong, you teach it about your animal.

To be more flexible and help educational aspect this game does not contain an initial database. This also allows it to be used for non animals like guessing of tools or locations.
bsdgames
collection of classic textual unix games
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stretch2.17-25amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
sid2.17-34amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie2.17-34amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm2.17-29amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye2.17-28amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster2.17-28amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
jessie2.17-22amd64,armel,armhf,i386
Debtags of package bsdgames:
gameadventure, board, puzzle, rpg, simulation, sport, toys, typing
interfacecommandline, text-mode
roleprogram
suitebsd
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
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This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.

It includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, caesar, canfield, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, pom, primes, quiz, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, worm, wtf, wump
cowsay
configurable talking cow
Maintainer: James McDonald
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stretch3.03+dfsg2-3all
buster3.03+dfsg2-6all
bookworm3.03+dfsg2-8all
trixie3.03+dfsg2-8all
sid3.03+dfsg2-8all
Debtags of package cowsay:
gametoys
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
useentertaining
works-withtext
Popcon: 520 users (110 upd.)*
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Cowsay (or cowthink) will turn text into happy ASCII cows, with speech (or thought) balloons. If you don't like cows, ASCII art is available to replace it with some other creatures (Tux, the BSD daemon, dragons, and a plethora of animals, from a turkey to an elephant in a snake).
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moon-buggy
Drive a car across the moon
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stretch1.0.51-11amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
sid1.0.51-14amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie1.0.51-14amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
jessie1.0.51-10amd64,armel,armhf,i386
bookworm1.0.51-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye1.0.51-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster1.0.51-12amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
Debtags of package moon-buggy:
gamearcade
hardwareinput:keyboard
interfacetext-mode
juniorarcade
roleprogram
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
Popcon: 16 users (13 upd.)*
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 License: DFSG free
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Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!
moon-buggy-esd
??? missing short description for package moon-buggy-esd :-(
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gamearcade
interfacetext-mode
juniorarcade
roleprogram
uitoolkitncurses
usegameplaying
works-withaudio
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nettoe
networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3x3 Grid) for the console
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trixie1.5.1-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm1.5.1-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye1.5.1-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster1.5.1-2amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
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roleprogram
usegameplaying
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NetToe is a console-based version of the classic game "Tic Tac Toe". It's playable against computer AI, a player on the same machine or with another player over the network. It uses a simple 3x3 board.
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sl
Correct you if you type `sl' by mistake
Maintainer: Markus Frosch
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sid5.02-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bullseye5.02-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm5.02-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
trixie5.02-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
jessie3.03-17amd64,armel,armhf,i386
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interfacetext-mode
roleprogram
uitoolkitncurses
useentertaining
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Sl is a program that can display animations aimed to correct you if you type 'sl' by mistake. SL stands for Steam Locomotive.
zivot
the game of life, simple console version
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roleprogram
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This is a variant of John Horton Conway's Game of Life (a classic cellular automaton), simple console version, written in FORTRAN.
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