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→Tracking Down the Wumpus
In the example below, nine out of the nineteen caverns explored by the hunter (the yellow figure in the middle right cavern) contain bloodspots (the dots inside some of the caverns). The Wumpus is probably somewhere in the middle of the eight spotted caverns.
[[File:Hunt the Wumpus Game Map.jpg|600px|thumb|center|A Hunt the Wumpus Map During a Game]]
Here's a hunting tip: If you are in a spotted cavern that is c''onnected to a clear cavern'' (no red dot), you can explore one cavern further before you risk entering the Wumpus' cavern. (That's because all caverns within two caverns of the Wumpus have a red dot.)
The trick to finding the Wumpus is to determine which cavern is more than two caverns away from all unspotted caverns. That cavern is the Wumpus' lair. NEVER enter the Wumpus' lair, or else you lose the game.
===Caution! Slime Pit===
When you enter a cavern that has green walls instead of blue walls, you are approaching a slime pit. Slime pits are vast pools of stagnant water that fill a cavern. If you enter a slime pit cavern, you fall in and lose the game.
Slime pits can usually be avoided, since all caverns within one cavern of a pit have green walls. But move carefully - there are two slime pits in the maze, and sometimes they are right next to each other.
The example below contains two slime pit warnings (shown as caverns with black walls) in the lower left area of the maze. The warnings indicate that the slime pit is probably located in the lower left corner of the maze.
