Play Jinxter Online
Jinxter’s that kind of text adventure where typing "eat the filing cabinet" feels like a legit strategy, and the game claps back with sarcastic remarks when you inevitably fail. You’ll barter with gnomes, lick walls, and somehow it all clicks into place—weirdly brilliant.
Game Overview
Oh man, Jinxter—this weird little MS-DOS text adventure from back in the day feels like someone took a Lewis Carroll story and ran it through a Monty Python filter. You type commands like "ask gnome about paperwork" or "lick the suspiciously sticky wall," and somehow that's actual progress. The puzzles make zero sense at first, but in that perfect way where you eventually go, "Ohhh, of course I needed to trade the rubber chicken for a permit to cross the moat."
It's got that dry British humor where even the error messages roast you ("That would be far too sensible"). No graphics, just your imagination and a lot of trial-and-error typing. Half the fun is seeing how far the game will let you lean into the absurdity—like trying to wear a mailbox as a hat or convincing a sentient doorknob to take a coffee break. If you miss when games were more about wit than visuals, this one's a delightfully bizarre time capsule.
Fair warning: You'll start seeing gnomes in your paperwork for days afterward.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download Jinxter ROM
You can download this ROM to play Jinxter offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
