This is a JavaScript variation of one of the oldest popular computer games. It was developed in BASIC by GregoryYob at Dartmouth in 1972. The code was published in Creative Computing magazine in 1975.
Hunt the Wumpus 
You are in Room:  0
with tunnels leading to: 
0

0

0
 

The Wumpus lives in set of numbered caves with each room leading to exactly 3 other rooms. At each turn you may either move to an adjacent room or shoot an arrow into that room in hopes of killing the Wumpus.
Warnings are displayed announcing danger in one of the adjoining rooms.

I feel a draft A draft indicates a bottomless pit in an adjacent room. Fall in and you die.
I hear bats. Superbats will pick you up and drop you into another room at random. This may result in dire consequences. 
I smell a Wumpus! The foul smelling Wumpus will move one room at random, if disturbed by you or your arrows. He is too heavy for the bats, and he has sucker feet so he is not bothered by the hazards. If you end up in the room with the Wumpus you will be eaten...
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