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How to Play Games in Your Mac Terminal

The Terminal is an application inside all Macs. It might be intimidating at first, because it's not as intuitive as the usual user interface, but it offers a lot of neat features, and you can use it do a lot of things that you would...
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Tetris

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    Type "Tetris" after following the instructions written before. A window should appear, and Tetris blocks will start falling.
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    Move the blocks around with the left and right arrows. Turn them with the up and down arrows. Your score should be on the right side of your playing area, together with Rows and Shapes.
    1. If you don't know how to play Tetris, see How to play Tetris.
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Snake

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    Type "Snake" after following the instructions written before. A window should appear, with a yellow snake moving.
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    Control the snake's movement with the up, left, right and down arrows. Try to collect the beads that appear on the screen.
    1. The objective of Snake is to guide your snake around the screen, collecting beads as they appear. The more you eat, the more your score rises, but the snake also gets longer.
    2. Hitting the side of the screen or hitting your tail will kill your snake, and you will lose.
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Gomoku

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    Type "Gomoku" after following the instructions written before. A window should appear with a screen full of dots.
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    Type y or n (y will let the computer start, n will let you start).
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    Move your selector around with the up, left, right and down arrows and select with x.
    1. Gomoku is like Connect 4, only that you need 5 in a row to win. If you don't know how to play Connect 4, see How to play Connect 4.
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Pong

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    Type "Pong" after following the instructions written before. A window should appear with two bats on each side, and a red ball bouncing around.
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    Move the bat on the left with the left and right arrows, and the one on the right with the up and down arrows. The score is under the playing screen.
    1. The objective of pong is to send the ball into the opponent's area. The only defense they have is the bat, which is used to re-send the ball to you.
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Doctor

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    Type "Doctor" after following the instructions written before. Some text should appear saying "I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice." You are now conversing with your Mac's inner doctor!
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    Type out whatever you want to share with the doctor. Have fun with it, but beware––it will eventually get annoying.
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More Games

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    Find out what other games your computer has. To see a list, go to Finder, hold Cmd+Shift+G, and type "/usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/play".
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    Explore all the options. To play a game, follow the basic instructions above, typing its name in the Terminal to play.
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