Games

WOPR knows fifteen games, listed in the order the film shows them, and tic-tac-toe, which is not on the list. Every one is playable. Each game’s page says how to play it, what to type, and how to win.

There are three ways to start a game:

Name it on the command line: wopr chess, or wopr 7 by its number.
Log on, type LIST GAMES, and type a game’s number or name.
Ask WOPR for it by name: Let's play chess.

wopr --games prints the list, with the shortest name each game answers to. Inside a game, press Esc twice to leave it and return to WOPR.

No.	Game	Command	What it is
1	Falken’s Maze	`wopr maze`	A maze hidden in fog: you see only the cells you stood on, and where their passages lead.
2	Black Jack	`wopr blackjack`	Black Jack from one deck against WOPR’s dealer.
3	Gin Rummy	`wopr gin`	Gin Rummy against WOPR, first to 100 points.
4	Hearts	`wopr hearts`	Four-handed Hearts: you sit South, and WOPR plays West, North and East.
5	Bridge	`wopr bridge`	Contract bridge, kept simple.
6	Checkers	`wopr checkers`	Checkers (English draughts) on an 8 by 8 board.
7	Chess	`wopr chess`	Chess against WOPR.
8	Poker	`wopr poker`	Heads-up five-card draw against WOPR, with 100 chips each and fixed bets.
9	Fighter Combat	`wopr dogfight`	A turn-based dogfight, one on one.
10	Guerrilla Engagement	`wopr guerrilla`	A twelve-turn insurgency on a strip of six regions.
11	Desert Warfare	`wopr desert`	Armour against armour along a coast road of seven regions, over ten turns.
12	Air-to-Ground Actions	`wopr air-to-ground`	A six-sortie air campaign: twelve aircraft against six defended targets.
13	Theaterwide Tactical Warfare	`wopr tactical`	Corps and air wings fight over seven regions of a European front, with an escalation ladder.
14	Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare	`wopr biotoxic`	Infantry and chemical troops on a six-region front, where an agent released on a region spreads with the wind.
15	Global Thermonuclear War	`wopr gtw`	The film’s set piece: pick a side, and name the enemy’s cities as targets.
–	Tic-Tac-Toe	`wopr ttt`	Tic-tac-toe with large marks, the game that ends the film.