Hunt The Wumpus

The Wumpus World Simulator

Edited, Compiled, Modified by:

Author:

• Ruben Carlo Benante ([email protected])

Copyright: 2012 - 2016

License: GNU GPL Version 2.0

Based on:

• Original by Gregory Yob (1972)
• Larry Holder (accessed version Oct/2005)
• Walter Nauber 09/02/2001
• An Anonymous version of Hunt The Wumpus with menus (aeric, 2012?)

Special thanks to:

• Larry Holder ([email protected]) (version 1.0 and version 2.3)
• Walter Nauber ([email protected]) (swi-prolog version)

A very special thanks to Gregory Yob (in memoriam) and beloved wife, who was kind enough to answer my call and share with me a picture to upload to his wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Yob

Agents

Agent 001 and 005

Strategy:

- Lock a target and fulfill it. Targets can be 2 turns, 1 turn or 1 go forward
- Grab gold on sight
- Shoot as soon as it smells a Wumpus
- If wumpus dead, stump the body (go forward)
- If it smells and agent have no arrows, go around (safe mode)
- If it fells breeze, go back
- If wumpus dead or a piece of gold found, get out the cave
- If actions reach a dangerous amount, use the last to get out
- Nothing happening:
    + explore new squares
    + no new squares, explore random old squares

Note:

- Agent 001 is for fixed start position of the agent at [1,1]
- Agent 005 is for random agent start position

Agent 002

Strategy:

A prefixed list of actions fine-tuned for the fixed map Fig 62. The list have the actions that will run in order:

- lacoes([goforward,turnleft,goforward,goforward,turnleft,shoot,grab,turnleft,goforward,goforward,turnright,goforward,climb]).

Agent 004

Strategy:

Try to solve the Wumpus World without any use of memory.

- To avoid cicles the agent have lists tunned for each situation from where it draw a random member.

Agent 007

Strategy:

Headstrong: just go forward, stubborn as a mule, stiff-necked.

References

• Original Wumpus version 1: http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=247
• Original Wumpus version 2: http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=244
• http://www.trs-80.org/hunt-the-wumpus/
• https://www.practicingruby.com/articles/wumpus
• A C code simulating BASIC code for the original Wumpus: https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/threads/424300/wumpus-recoded-in-c
• Larry Holder's dedicated web page: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~holder/courses/AI/wumpus/