\w'greed 'u greed [-s]

The object of Greed is to erase as much of the screen as possible by moving around in a grid of numbers. To move your cursor, simply use your arrow keys or the the \*(Aqhjklyubn\*(Aq keys or your numeric keypad (with Num Lock on). Your location is signified by the @ symbol. The following diagram shows how the basic movemebt keys work.

y k u 7 8 9
 \e|/ \e|/
h-+-l 4-+-6
 /|\e /|\e
b j n 1 2 3

When you move in a direction, you erase N number of grid squares in that direction, N being the first number in that direction. Your score reflects the total number of squares eaten.

Greed will not let you make a move that would have placed you off the grid or over a previously eaten square. If no valid moves exist, your game ends.

Other Greed commands are \*(AqCtrl-L\*(Aq to redraw the screen, \*(Aqp\*(Aq to toggle the highlighting of the possible moves, and \*(Aqq\*(Aq to quit.

The only command line option to Greed is \*(Aq-s\*(Aq to output the high score file.

The environment variable GREEDOPTS can override the default color set, which will be parsed as a string of the form:

 <c1><c2><c3><c4><c5><c6><c7><c8><c9>[:[p]]

where <cn> is a character decribing the color for digit n. The color letters are read as follows:

 b = blue,
 g = green,
 c = cyan,
 r = red,
 m = magenta,
 y = yellow,
 w = white.

In addition, capitalizing a letter turns on the A_BOLD attribute for that letter.

If the string ends with a trailing :, letters following are taken as game options. At present, only \*(Aqp\*(Aq (equivalent to an initial \*(Aqp\*(Aq command) is defined.

/usr/lib/games/greed.hs

~/.greedscores

Originally written by Matt Day. Maintained by <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. See ESR\*(Aqs home page at \m[blue]http://www.catb.org/~esr/\m[] for updates and other resources.

This really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much like work.