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

TNNT is hosted by hardfought.org.

Most people play TNNT with 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. SSH to "nethack@hardfought.org" or pick an alternate server based on whatever's closest to where you are geographically:

  • hardfought.org: USA (East Coast)
  • eu.hardfought.org: Europe (London)
  • au.hardfought.org: Australia (Sydney)

If you'd like to play with the TNNT tileset, or you're at a location that blocks everything except web access, you can also play in a Web browser using the hardfought web terminal.

If you do not already have an account on Hardfought, you need to register one first after connecting. Then, select the TNNT game option in the main menu after you've logged in. That's all there is to it!

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.

For more detailed information about the TNNT tournament, see the FAQ page.

TNNT chat discussion happens on the Libera.Chat IRC server, on the #tnnt and #hardfought channels, or via the Roguelike Discord on #nethack-tnnt (IRC to Discord bridge is active). 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 IRC chat, which will automatically direct you to the #tnnt channel.

Overall Statistics

Clans 31
Players 279
Ascensions 287
Players who have ascended 94
Total games 12845
Scummed games 3964
Post-Amulet splats 19
Games that completed Mines + Soko 435
Total achievements earned by all players 23022
Total unique deaths 474
Total donations 618
Total in-game turns 42232933
Total real-life time spent playing TNNT 441 days, 16:01:32

Last 10 Ascensions

Name Character Turns Score Duration Endtime (UTC) Conducts
rancat Rog-Hum-Mal-Cha 47850 2063274 4 days, 10:10:21 2025-11-29 01:55 4 self artw surv bone
Eesui Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 35918 1980002 20:41:13 2025-11-29 01:47 2 self artw
spazm Wiz-Gno-Fem-Neu 42780 1010357 1 day, 3:53:31 2025-11-28 21:09 4 pile self artw surv
nikolaterran Kni-Hum-Fem-Law 51876 2281214 3 days, 7:12:20 2025-11-28 20:32 4 self artw elbe surv
Prowler Mon-Hum-Mal-Cha 57010 2147012 22:16:56 2025-11-28 20:04 4 weap self surv swap
khamul Val-Hum-Fem-Neu 53464 3898402 13 days, 2:30:58 2025-11-28 17:24 6 pile self artw elbe surv bone
Tangles Wiz-Orc-Mal-Cha 39360 2380442 6 days, 10:39:47 2025-11-28 12:36 4 self artw elbe surv
Tormuse Val-Dwa-Fem-Law 72999 5395423 23 days, 15:52:18 2025-11-28 11:19 7 pile artw geno elbe surv swap bone
mracich Val-Hum-Fem-Neu 163338 5652074 22 days, 3:25:14 2025-11-28 04:54 3 artw elbe bone
tinklebear Sam-Hum-Mal-Law 100544 2062133 7 days, 16:47:22 2025-11-28 01:48 12 athe pile self wish artw geno elbe surv swap arti pets halu

Last 10 Games

Name Character Turns Score Duration Endtime (UTC) Death reason
walkera Pri-Hum-Mal-Law 5447 2957 0:51:27 2025-11-29 04:54 killed by a hallucinogen-distorted panther
BilboBaggins Val-Hum-Fem-Law 2756 1411 0:20:10 2025-11-29 04:50 killed by a Woodland-elf
Furey Bar-Orc-Mal-Cha 1112 527 0:07:45 2025-11-29 04:49 killed by a kobold zombie
mracich Rog-Hum-Mal-Cha 338 100 0:02:03 2025-11-29 04:47 killed by a falling rock
jackbunny Pri-Elf-Mal-Cha 905 168 0:03:26 2025-11-29 04:45 killed by a coyote
mracich Bar-Hum-Fem-Neu 3084 1067 0:18:38 2025-11-29 04:44 killed by a pony
spontiff Hea-Gno-Mal-Neu 5012 400 1:50:53 2025-11-29 04:35 killed by a titan
jackbunny Val-Hum-Fem-Law 36147 252285 9 days, 22:26:45 2025-11-29 04:33 petrified by tasting cockatrice meat
BilboBaggins Val-Hum-Fem-Law 1347 1537 0:23:12 2025-11-29 04:29 killed by a raven
Furey Bar-Hum-Fem-Neu 3245 4184 0:28:31 2025-11-29 04:29 killed by an ettin zombie