This is a release page for Why Pout, IFComp entrant in 2024. It is a wordplay game with a specific mechanic.

I am currently on release 5, published November 12, 2024. The fixes.txt file shows the updates I've implemented so far.

The most recent fix is to allow the player more hints with THINK if they got close with a word, or got one of the words right.

Updated	27 days ago
Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings)
Author	Andrew Schultz
Genre	Interactive Fiction
Tags	text-adventure, wordplay

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Walkthrough 8.3 kB

Map (PNG format, spoilers) 19 kB

Logic map (warning: big spoilers!) 30 kB

why-pout-6.zip 711 kB

fixes.txt 6.6 kB

ZBlorb binary, release 5.0 411 kB

Development log