diff --git a/2006/monge/README.md b/2006/monge/README.md
index 4b06d8c3f..60dd8f6f1 100644
--- a/2006/monge/README.md
+++ b/2006/monge/README.md
@@ -28,21 +28,15 @@ For more detailed information see [2006 monge in bugs.md](/bugs.md#2006-monge).
 ./monge expression ...
 ```
 
+Incorrect formulas will ungracefully crash the program.
+
 
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./monge "z = 0" "z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4"
+./try.sh
 ```
 
-Incorrect formulas will ungracefully crash the program.
-
-This is supposed to happen.  As is written in the
-[The Jargon File](http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/feature.html):
-
-```
-That's not a bug, that's a feature.
-```
 
 
 ## Alternate code:
@@ -78,7 +72,7 @@ make clobber ITERATIONS=512 alt
 If you specify a value less than 1 for any of these it sets it back to the
 default. The value 1 was selected arbitrarily and such a small number as 1 will
 not do anything useful but as long as it's at least 1 it'll not be redefined.
-Does not try taking care of overflows but such large values would be impractical
+It does not try taking care of overflows but such large values would be impractical
 anyway.
 
 
@@ -87,6 +81,13 @@ anyway.
 Use `monge.alt` exactly as you would `monge` above.
 
 
+### Alternate try:
+
+```sh
+./try.alt.sh
+```
+
+
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
 For those who are familiar with the previous [IOCCC winners](/winners.html),
diff --git a/2006/monge/try.alt.sh b/2006/monge/try.alt.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..fab87d778
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2006/monge/try.alt.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.alt.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2006/monge alt code
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" alt >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./monge.alt \"z = 0\" \"z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4\": "
+echo 1>&2
+./monge.alt "z = 0" "z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4"
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to change the width/height/iterations to 500/500/1024: "
+echo 1>&2
+make clobber WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=500 ITERATIONS=1024 alt
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./monge.alt \"z = 0\" \"z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4\": "
+echo 1>&2
+./monge.alt "z = 0" "z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4"
+echo 1>&2
diff --git a/2006/monge/try.sh b/2006/monge/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..718361ac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2006/monge/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2006/monge
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./monge \"z = 0\" \"z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4\": "
+echo 1>&2
+./monge "z = 0" "z = z*z*z + c; Abs2(z) < 4"
+echo 1>&2
+
+
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index 5cee86d38..aa75671c2 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -3436,6 +3436,9 @@ Cody also added the [try.sh](/2006/hamre/try.sh) script.
 [Cody](#cody) added the [alternate code](/2006/monge/README.md#alternate-code) that lets
 one resize the image and redefine the number of iterations.
 
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/2006/monge/try.sh) and
+[try.alt.sh](/2006/monge/try.alt.sh) scripts.
+
 Cody also fixed the Makefile to use `sdl-config` (which is what the author
 stated too though that was noticed later), not `sdl2-config` as two functions
 that are used were removed from [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org),