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The November Nethack Tournament

Do you love to play NetHack?

Want to show everyone your personal prowess?

Join a clan and team up to accomplish feats too hard for a single player?

Or just mess around and see how many different ways you can get yourself killed?

Then come join us in November for a month of NetHacking fun.

  The tournament starts in The tournament ends in The tournament is over; see you all next November on !


How to Play

You will need an SSH client to connect to the game servers. Linux and Mac OS typically come with this installed; Windows users can use either a free client like PuTTY or Windows Subsystem for Linux.

TNNT is hosted by hardfought.org. Connect to "nethack@hardfought.org" via SSH, and register an account. Then, you can choose any of three servers to play on:

Connect to your preferred server the same way via SSH and select the TNNT game option. That's all there is to it! If you'd like to play with the TNNT tileset, or you're at a location that blocks everything except web access, check out our hterm page, you can play this way from any of the three servers listed above.

To create, join, or manage clans, go here. Clan membership (creating and joining) will be frozen on November 10th at 00:00 UTC!

More Information

For more general information on NetHack, check out Wikipedia, the NetHackWiki, and The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play.

TNNT-related in-game commands include:

For more information about the TNNT tournament, see the About page and Rules page.

Live game events via Twitter feed! Be sure to check out and follow our TNNT Twitter Feed to stay current.

TNNT chat discussion happens on the Libera.Chat IRC server, on the #tnnt and #hardfought channels. All TNNT discussion is on-topic in these channels, and this is the best way to reach the admins if you have any issues. Click here to open the chat. Enter "#tnnt" for the channel.

Overall Statistics

Clans 34
Players 318
Games 15073
Scummed games 6033
Ascensions 392
Ascending players 108

Last 10 Ascensions

name character turns score duration endtime conducts
swegen Pri-Elf-Fem-Cha 64088 3525338 28 days, 4:03:43 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. 8 pile artw geno elbe swap vlad ride bone
oh6 Pri-Elf-Mal-Cha 76403 2083288 7 days, 6:08:17 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. 3 artw geno surv
eitbo Tou-Hum-Mal-Neu 96926 5115582 25 days, 17:02:36 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:15 p.m. 2 artw surv
Tangles Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 29081 1226732 3 days, 10:30:10 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:02 p.m. 4 pile artw elbe surv
disperse Ran-Orc-Mal-Cha 23378 583750 20:22:28 Nov. 30, 2023, 10:32 p.m. 4 self artw elbe surv
qt Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 54579 2579856 1 day, 21:36:02 Nov. 30, 2023, 9:15 p.m. 5 self artw elbe surv bone
peterg Wiz-Gno-Fem-Neu 48679 2722112 8 days, 7:24:13 Nov. 30, 2023, 8:20 p.m. 5 self artw surv pets bone
finitelycraig Pri-Elf-Fem-Cha 66913 2737518 2 days, 20:33:59 Nov. 30, 2023, 8:13 p.m. 3 artw elbe surv
Grouchy Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 43456 2800056 3 days, 3:02:16 Nov. 30, 2023, 7:31 p.m. 4 self artw elbe surv
HalNovek Wiz-Elf-Fem-Cha 45814 1854660 4 days, 5:50:42 Nov. 30, 2023, 7:27 p.m. 4 self artw surv bone

Last 10 Games

name character turns score duration endtime death reason
swegen Pri-Elf-Fem-Cha 64088 3525338 28 days, 4:03:43 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. ascended
oh6 Pri-Elf-Mal-Cha 76403 2083288 7 days, 6:08:17 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. ascended
jmcunx Hea-Hum-Fem-Neu 2699 688 0:23:46 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. killed by a werejackal
jientho Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 1060 524 0:13:37 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:58 p.m. killed by a bolt of lightning
bleeko Bar-Hum-Mal-Neu 2464 3009 0:25:38 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:58 p.m. killed by an invisible hill orc
joes Bar-Orc-Fem-Cha 15151 56636 14:50:05 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:58 p.m. quit
Loggers Mon-Hum-Mal-Cha 1 0 0:00:01 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:56 p.m. escaped
Loggers Mon-Hum-Mal-Cha 1 0 0:00:01 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:56 p.m. escaped
Ride Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 2342 1380 0:04:47 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:56 p.m. killed by a vampire in bat form
Loggers Mon-Hum-Mal-Cha 1 0 0:00:01 Nov. 30, 2023, 11:56 p.m. escaped