diff --git a/1993/rince/.gitignore b/1993/rince/.gitignore
index 7b03e212b..70de81aee 100644
--- a/1993/rince/.gitignore
+++ b/1993/rince/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 jkb
 rince
 rince.orig
+rince.alt
 prog.orig
diff --git a/1993/rince/Makefile b/1993/rince/Makefile
index 3a8cd3e71..c8c32af76 100644
--- a/1993/rince/Makefile
+++ b/1993/rince/Makefile
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ ARCH=
 
 # Defines that are needed to compile
 #
-CDEFINE=
+CDEFINE= -DZ=17
 
 # Include files that are needed to compile
 #
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ OBJ= ${PROG}.o
 DATA=
 TARGET= ${PROG}
 #
-ALT_OBJ=
-ALT_TARGET=
+ALT_OBJ= ${PROG}.alt.o
+ALT_TARGET= ${PROG}.alt
 
 
 #################
diff --git a/1993/rince/README.md b/1993/rince/README.md
index df6b21999..fccb1a902 100644
--- a/1993/rince/README.md
+++ b/1993/rince/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # Most Well Rounded
 
 James Bonfield  
-MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 
-Hills Road  
-Cambridge  
 England  
 
 
@@ -13,6 +10,8 @@ England
 make all
 ```
 
+NOTE: there is an alternate version of this program that allows one to slow down
+the game. See the Alternate code section below.
 
 ## To run:
 
@@ -21,12 +20,39 @@ make all
 ```
 
 where:
-	
+
 `[cabbage]` is a CABBAGE description file  (default: `rince.c`)
 
+### Alternate code: slowing down the game
+
+Some people may want to slow down the game by increasing the
+value 17 in the lines:
+
+
+```c
+struct timeval v= {0,1<<17} ;
+```
+
+and
+
+```c
+refresh(),c=select(k,&y,0,0,(v.tv_usec=1<<17,&v))?getch():0;
+```
+
+to another value like 18 or 19. You can do this via the alternate code like:
+
+
+```sh
+make CDEFINE="-DZ=18" clobber alt
+```
+
+Replace 18 with whatever number you wish.
+
+Use `rince.alt` as you would `rince` above.
+
 
 ## Judges' remarks:
-    
+
 The author has provided several CABBAGE files for your amusement:
 
 - [rince.data1](rince.data1) plays
@@ -72,7 +98,7 @@ should be replaced with:
 
 ```c
 select(k,&y,0,0,(v.tv_usec=1<<whatever_you_want,&v))
-```	
+```
 
 where `whatever_you_want` is some integer such as 17 or 19.
 
@@ -83,20 +109,10 @@ compiler in the first place), this program may be used to log
 out very quickly.  Unfortunately, you can't do anything else
 with it.
 
-### Slowing down the game
-
-Some people may want to slow down the game by increasing the
-value 17 in the line:
-
-
-```c
-struct timeval v= {0,1<<17} ;  
-```
-	
-to something like 18 or 19.
+### Additional notes
 
 One may also need to do a `stty sane` if you kill the program
-to restore your terminal state.
+to restore your terminal state. If that does not work try `reset`.
 
 Some people report that `rince` dumps core on their system.
 
@@ -144,7 +160,7 @@ I have compiled in on the following systems:
 
 ---
 ```
-System              OS              Compiler (and flags) 
+System              OS              Compiler (and flags)
 DECstation 5000/240 Ultrix 4.2A     c89 -std
 SPARCstation 1+     SunOS 4.1       gcc -ansi -pedantic
 SPARCstation 10/31  Solaris 2.1     gcc -ansi -pedantic     (*)
diff --git a/1993/rince/rince.alt.c b/1993/rince/rince.alt.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c9ce9039
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1993/rince/rince.alt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+/** J.K.Bonfield **
+^	<						 	 							
+^	>						 	 							
+<			#				>						v		
+<			 				 			<					
+<			>				>			<		v		
+X			 				 			X				j
+x			 				 			X				j
+X	 						x	^						k
+^	 						 	^							
+^	#						 									
+X			 				X			X				X
+
+^	v						 	 							
+v						 	 						v		
+v						#	 									
+v						X	 						 		
+v						x	 						 		
+>				#			<						v		
+>				 			 				>				
+X				 			 				X			l
+x				 			 				X			l
+
+41 20
+########################################
+#                                      #
+#  <   <   <   <   <>  <   <   <       #
+#       >   >   >  <>   >   >   >   >  #
+#  <   <   <   <   <>  <   <   <       #
+#       >   >   >  <>   >   >   >   >  #
+#  <   <   <   <   <>  <   <   <       #
+#       >   >   >  <>   >   >   >   >  #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#                                      #
+#           X                          #
+########################################*/
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curses.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <setjmp.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+int _tty_ch;
+bool _echoit;
+bool _rawmode;
+int _tty;
+#define U char
+#define G for(
+#define I )malloc(sizeof(
+
+typedef struct z {U x[20]; struct z*y; } j; j*J[2][256];
+struct timeval v= {0,1<<Z} ;
+U**X,c,*P="noopoqqnr",d;
+
+j*a(int Q, int i) {
+    G
+    clear(),noecho(),cbreak(); ;
+)
+
+{
+    int x=0,y=0,W=Q,Q=i-1,k;
+    G;
+    y<=Q;
+    (mvaddch(y,x,X[y][x]),++x^W-1)||(x=0,y++));
+    k=y=- --x;
+    G
+    refresh(),c=select(k,&y,0,0,(v.tv_usec=1<<Z,&v))?getch():0;
+    k?++x-W||(x=1,++y-Q||(--k,x=W-1,y=Q-1)):--x||(y--,x=W-1),k|y;
+)
+
+{
+    j *t;
+    G
+    t=J[1-k][X[y][x]]; t; t=t->y) {
+	U*f=t->x;
+	if (d==f[17]|f[17]==c) {
+	    int i=k&2,u=9,k=1,w=x,_=y,T;
+	    G;
+	    --u||(d-f[8]&&(X[y][x]=f[8]),w---_--,i=0,u=8,k--);) {
+	        _+=P[T=i>u?u:i]-'o';
+	        w+=P[4+T]-'p';
+	        if(k) {
+		    if (d-f[i]&&f[i]-X[_][w]) break;
+		        i++;
+	        } else
+		    f[++i+8]-d && (X[_][w]=f[i+8]);
+}   }   }   }   }   }
+
+jmp_buf E;
+
+int main(int open, U**exit) {
+    FILE*C=fopen (
+	open-2?__FILE__:*++exit,P+8);
+	j*t;
+	volatile int Q,Y=0;
+	int i,q; d=open-2?'\t':'*'; L:
+
+	Q=0; G; setjmp(E)<256; Q--
+    )
+    longjmp(E,(J[Y][Q]=0,Q++));
+    G; ; ) {
+	if(!C)return 1;
+	if('\n'==(c=getc(C)))
+	    if(!Y++)goto L; else
+	    {	fscanf(C,"%d %d\n",&i,&q);
+		X=(U**I P++)*q*(i+1));
+	    Q=0; G; Q<q; Q++)
+        X[Q]=(U*)&X[q]+Q*i;
+    
+	fread(*X,(initscr(),q*i),1,C);
+	a(i,Q);
+    }
+    t=(j*I*a(Q--,--Q)));
+    t->y=J[Y][c]; J[Y][c]=t;
+    fgets(t->x,20,C); }
+}
diff --git a/thanks-for-fixes.md b/thanks-for-fixes.md
index b8dacf403..f1dec0627 100644
--- a/thanks-for-fixes.md
+++ b/thanks-for-fixes.md
@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ compilers to compile the code, based on the author's remarks.
 
 ## [1990/cmills](1990/cmills/cmills.c) ([README.md](1990/cmills/README.md]))
 
-Yusuke got this to work in modern systems (it resulted in a bus error).
+Yusuke got this to work in modern systems (it previously resulted in a bus
+error).
 
 To prevent alarming warnings at linking or runtime Cody made the entry use
 `fgets()` rather than `gets()`. He notes that another option would have been to
@@ -626,7 +627,7 @@ NOTE: as noted in the README.md file and the [bugs.md](/bugs.md), this program a
 world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth) or just the
 [USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), respectively, without enough
 args (2). And not that we need the help or anything for this :-) but we do
-encourage you to test this :-) This should not be fixed.
+encourage you to test this :-) This should NOT be fixed.
 
 
 ## [1993/jonth](1993/jonth/jonth.c) ([README.md](1993/jonth/README.md]))
@@ -670,6 +671,10 @@ README.md files for details.
 
 Yusuke supplied a patch to get this to work in modern systems.
 
+Cody provided an alternate version to simplify slowing the game down. This was
+based on our suggestion that it might be desired to slow down but done in a way
+that makes it easy to configure at compile time. See the README.md for details.
+
 
 ## [1993/schnitzi](1993/schnitzi/schnitzi.c) ([README.md](1993/schnitzi/README.md]))