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### Hurkle
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Hurkle? A Hurkle is a happy beast and lives in another galaxy on a planet named Lirht that has three moons. Hurkle are favorite pets of the Gwik, the dominant race of Lihrt and … well, to find out more, read “The Hurkle is a Happy Beast,” a story in the book _A Way Home_ by Theodore Sturgeon.
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In this program a shy hurkle is hiding on a 10 by 10 grid. Homebase is point 0,0 in the _Southwest_ corner. Your guess as to the gridpoint where the hurkle is hiding should be a pair of whole numbers, separated by a comma. After each try, the computer will tell you the approximate direction to go look for the Hurkle. You get five guesses to find him; you may change this number, although four guesses is actually enough.
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This program was written by Bob Albrecht of People’s Computer Company.
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As published in Basic Computer Games (1978):
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- [Atari Archives](https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=94)
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- [Annarchive](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf#page=109)
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Downloaded from Vintage Basic at
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http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
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