_      _               _____                                          _
        | |    (_)             / ____|                                        | |
        | |     _ _ __   ___  | |     ___  _ __ ___  _ __ ___   __ _ _ __   __| | ___ _ __
        | |    | | '_ \ / _ \ | |    / _ \| '_ ` _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \ '__|
        | |____| | | | |  __/ | |___| (_) | | | | | | | | | | | (_| | | | | (_| |  __/ |
        |______|_|_| |_|\___|  \_____\___/|_| |_| |_|_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|
      

Prerequisites

This game requires a unix shell such as bash. If you are on a Windows machine, download GIT BASH. If you are on a Mac or a Linux machine, use your default terminal

How to Play

First download and unzip GAME.zip. You will see that it contains a folder called GAME. You will need to unzip/extract the folder. If you are on a mac, right click (or Cmd+click) on the folder and click New Terminal at Folder or Services > New Terminal at Folder (or something similar...), if you are on windows then right click and select Git Bash Here. We want to open a terminal at that folder so that we can start the game.

To read your first instruction you must use the command cat (short for concatenate).

cat, followed by a file name, prints the text contents of the file to the screen. The file we want to read is called start.txt, so we can type in cat start.txt.

Give it a go and with any luck you will have your next instruction.

NOTE - on some versions of Windows the rev command will not work. Don’t worry - it’s not an essential command to have installed! If you find the ‘rev’ command does not work on your computer, just use this text reverser to complete the challenge.