Comments on Puzzle #2683: snky
By Mike Ghaly (wrldtrvlr2000)
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solvability: line logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 24, 2008
But, what is it?#2: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Apr 24, 2008
I do not know what this is...or why I bothered.#3: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Apr 24, 2008
??#4: Meg Smith (mamadragonfreak) on Apr 24, 2008
ok solved it but does snky mean snakey? or does it stand for something else that i don't see?#5: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Apr 24, 2008
plain and simple WTF#6: Gypso (Gypso) on Apr 27, 2008 [SPOILER]
not to sound to critical here but at least when you do something that only a design please try come up with something nice and original
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Apr 28, 2008
Notice how he never answers any of our comments/questions. I don't think even HE knows what it is.#8: Mike Ghaly (wrldtrvlr2000) on Apr 29, 2008
Actually I was trying to add to a snakey (Snake), but I saved it by error. Sorry#9: Alaris Zaaqurin (zephyr) on May 2, 2008 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#11: Alaris Zaaqurin (zephyr) on May 6, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#12: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 8, 2008
I'm skeptical. I wrote a version of that game for the Zenith Z-100 in 1983. (I remember I developed a special font that consisted of snake heads, tails, and body segments in various orientations, so it looked like a game with fancy graphics (by 1983 standards) but it was really just text.) But I certainly didn't invent the game. I knew it from the "worm" game that was standard on pretty much all Unix systems back then.#13: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on May 8, 2008
I just dug up the source code to the old Unix version and it says "Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California". That would be the date that the Regents of the University of California realized that the version of Unix that was being developed there might be of value and insisted that their copyright be slapped all over it. The code is probably older.
The author of the Unix version I saw was Michael Toy, who by 1980 was developing a much more elaborate Unix game called "rogue" which was the forerunner of "nethack" and many other dungeon crawling computer games.
Googling around I see the intellivision version dates from 1981.
I don't know if Michael Toy was the actual inventor of this game. It's possible. He looks like a guy who might have invented this game (see http://www.nndb.com/people/399/000031306/ ).
very funny...& I notice that he wasn't sure if he was born!#14: Gypso (Gypso) on May 31, 2008
And look at that! Banana slugs are involved too!#15: Jota (Jota) on Nov 22, 2008
Why me?#16: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Nov 23, 2008
Why you, what?#17: Jota (Jota) on Nov 23, 2008
Why do I get this "silly" puzzles when I hit random?#18: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Nov 23, 2008
LOL. Don't hit random anymore. :-)#19: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Aug 30, 2018
done
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