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A parody. The tRum Puss is a made-up creature; any resemblance is coincidental.
Survive the shift
By day it sleeps. At night it raids the WcDonald's dock and eats on its Golden Throne. Don't be in the room when it walks in.
Serve the subpoena
Follow the clues — full diapers, Secret Service chatter, YMCA through the walls — and serve it before it serves you notice.
Stroke its ego
Buy real-life flattery gifts in the souvenir shop. It can't resist gloating over them — which tells you exactly where it is.
Climb the ladder
Score every shift, get promoted from Intern to Chief of Chiefs, and race everyone else on the leaderboard.
How it plays
- Every move takes 30 minutes. Clock out at the Staff Entrance when your shift ends — or serve the tRum Puss for the bigger win.
- A narrator reads every clue, and the tRum Puss talks back in its own voice. Real rooms, real photos, and 3D Street View of the building.
- It learns: catch it napping and it hides somewhere new — and sleeps lightly.
Where it comes from: Hunt the Wumpus (1973)
In 1973 Gregory Yob, a programmer in California, got bored of the hide-and-seek computer games of the day, which all took place on a flat 10×10 grid. So he wrote Hunt the Wumpus in BASIC and hid his monster in a cave shaped like a dodecahedron: 20 rooms, each joined to exactly three others. You never saw the Wumpus. You sensed it: "I smell a Wumpus!" meant it was one room away. Bottomless pits and super bats, which snatched you up and dropped you in a random room, made every step a gamble, and you had five crooked arrows to shoot it with. Miss, and you might wake it up.
Shared through the People's Computer Company, it spread from mainframe terminals to the first home computers (Texas Instruments even sold it as a TI-99/4A cartridge in 1980) and became an early classic of games you win by reasoning from clues instead of luck. Half a century later, the Wumpus has a new cave, a new appetite, and much better hair.
| Hunt the Wumpus, 1973 | tRum Puss: Night Shift |
|---|---|
| A dodecahedron cave: 20 rooms, 3 tunnels each | A white building with a gigantic ballroom: 18 rooms, and a secret tunnel |
| "I smell a Wumpus!" (it's next door) | 🧷 The stench of full diapers (it's next door) |
| Super bats carry you to a random room | 📸 The press gaggle chases you to a random room |
| Bottomless pits | 🔥 Walking in on it, or hiding three turns in a row: you're fired |
| Five crooked arrows | 📜 A few subpoenas, next door only |
| Miss, and the Wumpus may wake and move | Miss, and the tRum Puss spooks and moves, and it learns where you caught it |
| The Wumpus just waits | 🌙 At night it raids the WcDonald's dock and eats on its Golden Throne |
tRum Puss Gear: the bottle it never opens
Dusty Reserve Rum-Flavored Cola · 0.0% alcohol, 100% denial
Non-alcoholic rum-flavored cola, Limited Edition tRum Puss plush, and very important schwag straight out of the game's souvenir shop: the gold pager, the "Kept It" trophy, the nugget bucket and more.
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