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Hamurabi
Try your hand at governing ancient Samaria for 10 years.
Congratulations, you are the newest ruler of ancient Samaria,
elected for a ten year term of office. Your duties are to dispense
food, direct farming, and buy and sell land as needed to support
your people. Watch out for rat infestiations and the plague! Grain
is the general currency, measured in bushels. The following will
help you in your decisions:
- Each person needs at least 20 bushels of grain per year to
survive
- Each person can farm at most 10 acres of land
- It takes 2 bushels of grain to farm an acre of land
- The market price for land fluctuates yearly
Rule wisely and you will be showered with appreciation at the end
of your term. Rule poorly and you will be kicked out of office!
The origins of this game are unknown. It has existed as an APL
program and as a BASIC program, and (I think) appeared in Creative
Computing at some point. The game was converted to HTML and
Javascript by Jeff Halbgewachs.
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