Basic Games in Scheme

I use this little project to test algorithms and libraries, but it's marginally fun to play with some of these.

  1. Install Chez Scheme
    • Works on Mac and Linux. Might be usable in WSL on Windows?
  2. ./basicss, type ? at the prompt for interactive fun. 
    > ?
Commands:
acey, aceyducey     Card game of Hi/Lo.
bagel               Guess a 3-digit number with place hints.
banner W H TEXT...  Draw a banner, each char WxH sized, max 10.
bofh                BOFH Excuse Generator.
d, dice N S         Roll N number dice of S sides.
guess               Guess a number 1-100 with hi/lo hints.
hangman             Guess the word before you hang.
hello [NAME]        Say hello.
hurkle              Catch the Hurkle.
maze W H            Maze generator. W H are size, 8+
seabattle           Sea battle.
slash W H           Simple slash maze generator. W H are size, 8+
stars               Guess a number 1-100 with star hints.
wordsearch [FILENAME [ALPHABET]]Create a word search puzzle, words from filename or entered by hand.
?, help             Show this help.
quit                Quit.

  3. ./basicss wordsearch puzzle.txt 0123456789 for word search with words from puzzle.txt (one per line), and a new filler alphabet of just numbers.

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