Y

Printable ASCII characters
~	!	@	#	$	%	^	&	*	(	)	_	+	space
`	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	-	=	{	}	|
	Qq	Ww	Ee	Rr	Tt	Yy	Uu	Ii	Oo	Pp	:	"	[	]	\
	Aa	Ss	Dd	Ff	Gg	Hh	Jj	Kk	Ll	?	;	'	Ctrl
	Zz	Xx	Cc	Vv	Bb	Nn	Mm	,	.	/	<	>	Alt

• y represents a light:
  • y yellow light
  • y black light

• Y represents an apelike creature:
  • Y monkey
  • Y ape
  • Y owlbear
  • Y yeti
  • Y carnivorous ape
  • Y sasquatch

• Press y to move northwest if numpad movement is off
• Press shift + y to move far northwest if numpad movement is off

Strategy

Beware the y key! Not only does it move northwest, it also answers "yes" to questions like "Eat the cockatrice corpse?" Woe betide careless players who hold down the y key and meet a powerful peaceful monster to their northwest. This is especially troublesome in Minetown. Some game binaries are compiled with paranoid_hit, an option which requires you to type "yes" in order to answer such questions in the affirmative.

SLASH'EM

While SLASH'EM introduced no new creatures using y or Y, the z zruty has had its glyph changed to a Y.