Jotto

Moby ID: 70900

Released: 1988 on DOS
Credits: 1 person

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Puzzle
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Interface: Text parser

Business Model: Shareware
Media Type: Download
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

See Also

Jotto (1973 on Mainframe, 1981 on Sol-20)
Jotto (1975 on Altair 8800)
Jotto (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Jotto (1979 on TRS-80)

Description

Jotto is a single player, shareware, word guessing game.

The player must guess a the letters in a word by trying different other letter combinations. The computer will then tell the player how many "jots" they have, a jot being the right letter in the right place. The goal is to guess the word, which can be three, five or seven letters long, in as few turns as possible.

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Credits (DOS version)

JOTTO was written by

Scott M. Leventhal (in BASIC and then compiled using Microsoft's QuickBASIC 4.0)

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Identifiers +

MobyGames ID: 70900

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Game added by piltdown_man.

Game added February 1, 2015. Last modified February 13, 2023.