Wumpus World Help

Your Goal: Retrieve the gold located somewhere in a treacherous cave.

The following example Wumpus World illustrates all the cave's dangers

As you direct your assistant throughout the cave, he may encounter the wumpus, a hungry beast who will eat anyone who enters his chamber or he may fall into a bottomless pit to his death. However, your assistant does not enter these dangerous chambers of the cave unaware; when he passes next to a pit he will feel a breeze and when he passes next to the wumpus he will smell a stench. This does not mean you can always avoid these dangers. As the board above shows at square 2,2 you can not tell which of two squares leads to a pit and which is safe.

• When the game begins, your assistant has just climbed into the cave down a rope.
• Your assistant sees a glitter while in the chamber containing the gold.
• Your assistant feels a breeze while next to a chamber containing a pit.
• Your assistant smells a stench while next to a chamber containing the wumpus
• Your assistant has one arrow to kill the wumpus.
• If your assistant enters a chamber with a pit, he will fall to his death.
• If your assistant enters a chamber with the wumpus, he will be eaten.
• Your assistant can safely enter a chamber with the dead wumpus, but it smells real bad.
• The wumpus does not move during the course of a game.
• When the wumpus dies, it lets out a woeful scream.
• You finish the game by returning to the starting square and climbing out.

• 10,000 - for retrieving the gold.
• 5,000 - for killing the wumpus.

• 15,000 - if your assistant dies.
• 100 - for each move (varies depending on world size).

• You may restart your game at anytime
• You can save your game and pick up where you left off later
• You can choose to play with or without viewing the cave. Playing without viewing the cave is obviously harder.
• To see how the game works, check the demo box on the login page and you will then be able to see the whole cave.

Okay, I'm ready to play

This game is based on the description of the Wumpus World game as presented in Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (153-155).