NAME

       animals - traditional AI game that learns about animals from the player

SYNOPSIS

       animals [DatabaseFile [TypeString [PluralTypeString]]]

       or

       animals {-h|--help}

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the animals game.  animals is a text-based animal guessing game.

RULES

       You think of an animal, and hit enter when you have one.  Then the game asks you yes-or-no questions that
       successively  narrows  down  your  animal.  Eventually, the game will make a guess, and ask you if it was
       right. If it was wrong, you win! You then teach it about your animal.

FILES

       /var/games/animals/animals.db

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally written by Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu> (for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system).
       The current Author is Philipp "ph3-der-loewe" Schafft <lion@lion.leolix.org>.

HISTORY

       animals  was  initially  released on Fri, 4th of Jun 1999.  On Fri, 16th of Jul 2010 the first non Debian
       native version was released.  This was part of the takeover by  Philipp  Schafft  (see  AUTHORS)  of  the
       Debian  as  it  was  orphaned.  On  Wed, 27th of Jun 2012 he abdicated Debian maintainership but is still
       upstream author.

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