GREED(6)

💖 GREED(6) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're playing greed — the section 6 game, the one where you literally just eat the whole screen until you can't move anymore. no cap. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

greed — eat a game field until you run out of moves 🍽️

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

greed [-s] [-w width] [-h height] [-f] [-p] [-r seed]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the whole point of Greed (main character energy fr) is to erase as much of the screen as you possibly can by moving around in a grid of numbers. that's it. that's the game. 💅

to move your cursor, just use your arrow keys, or the hjklyubn keys, or your numeric keypad (with Num Lock on). your location is signified by the @ symbol — that's you, bestie, you're the @ 🎀

here's the diagram showing how the basic movement keys work:

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

when you move in a direction, you erase N number of grid squares in that direction, where N is the first number in that direction. your score reflects the total number of squares eaten. obsessed tbh 🌸

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

other Greed commands you need to know:

• Ctrl+L to redraw the screen 🔄
• p to toggle the highlighting of the possible moves ✨
• q to quit 👋

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -w width — sets the width of the board 📏
• -h height — sets the height of the board 📐
• -f — sizes the board to fit your terminal window 🪟
• -p — displays all your next possible moves with a reverse-video highlight 🌈 (during the game, p toggles this feature on and off)
• -r seed — sets the random seed 🎲 (useful for reproducible games, iykyk)
• -s — output the high score file 👑

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

the environment variable GREEDOPTS can override the default color set, and it gets parsed as a string of the form:

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

where <cn> is a character describing 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

also, capitalizing a letter turns on the A_BOLD attribute for that letter. bold AND colorful, we love to see it 💅

if the string ends with a trailing :, the letters following are taken as game options. at present, only p (equivalent to an initial p command) is defined.

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✨ FILES ✨

• /usr/lib/games/greed.hs — default location of Greed high scores 👑
• ~/.greedscores — where they're put if the default location cannot be written to 🏠

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✨ AUTHORS == ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ✨

written by Matt Day. maintained by esr@snark.thyrsus.com. see ESR's home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and other resources 🫶

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✨ BUGS ✨

this really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much like work 😭💀

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so that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this is GREED(6) from 2026-05-21 — go eat the grid, no cap 💖✨