Play With Words in Linux Terminal With This Bookworm Inspired Game

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Sausage is a word forming game, inspired by the classic Bookworm. Written in bash script, you can use it on any Linux distribution.

Playing Sausage Game in terminal
Playing Sausage

Press r key in game to reshuffle. Each reshuffle loses a turn and introduces multiple red cells. Existing red cell drop one cell down.

  • Earn points by spotting words.
  • Longer word spotting results in coloured letters. Using coloured letters give more points.
  • Smaller words introduces red letters, which when reached bottom, you lose the game.

Installation

It’s one of those amusing things you can do in the terminal.
Since it’s a terminal-based game, it requires a few commands for installation. I advise learning the command line essentails from our terminal basics series.

./sausage.sh

Essential commands and shortcuts

To undo a letter select, press the Backspace key. Undo a word selection with the Delete key. You need to have git installed on your system. The interface has all the key combinations described properly. Even the direction of motion is displayed.Once a starting word is decided, press the Space/Enter key to select that letter. Now, use the navigation keys to continue selection.chmod +x install.sh

Technically, you run Sausage from the script itself. Still, initially, it has created a few directories. This screenshot from the official repository shows them:You can find more gameplay details on its official GitLab page.

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To show all the words, press the b key in the game.Use git to clone the official Sausage repository:./install.sh

I let you leave a few words in the comments 😉

Show all words in Sausage
Show all words

If you ever played the classic Bookworm, Sausage will be pure nostalgia. And if you never played that before, it could still be fun to try it f you like these kinds of game.

Select/Unselect letters
Select/Unselect letters

So, to ‘uninstall’ Sausage, you have to remove the cloned repository and if you want to remove the game related files, check the screenshot above and remove them.

Reshuffle constantly ends the game
Reshuffle in Sausage

Configuration

To move without selecting any word, use the arrow key.

Sausage config file editing using nano editor
Sausage Config
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git clone https://gitlab.com/christosangel/sausage.git

cd sausage

Sausage needs a 60 Column x 34 Lines terminal to work properly.

Up for a (word) game?

Limited configuration is possible here. Either manually edit ~/.config/sausage/sausage.config file or use the c key in the game start page.The goal of the game is simple.

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