diff --git a/2018/ciura/README.md b/2018/ciura/README.md
index 5cc430d9f..dfae12eaa 100644
--- a/2018/ciura/README.md
+++ b/2018/ciura/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ below for more details.
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./prog < Makefile
-./prog < README.md
+./try.sh
 ```
 
 
@@ -43,6 +42,16 @@ make alt
 Use `prog.alt` as you would `prog` above.
 
 
+### Alternate try:
+
+```sh
+./try.alt.sh
+```
+
+Do you spot the fix by running both [try.sh](try.sh) and
+[try.alt.sh](try.alt.sh)?
+
+
 ## Judges' remarks:
 
 This text was processed by `prog`. You may get confused.  We're not really sure:
diff --git a/2018/ciura/try.alt.sh b/2018/ciura/try.alt.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1b731011e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2018/ciura/try.alt.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.alt.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2018/ciura 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: ./prog.alt < Makefile: "
+echo 1>&2
+./prog.alt < Makefile
+echo 1>&2
+
+read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./prog.alt < README.md: "
+echo 1>&2
+./prog.alt < README.md
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index feb379284..2344f7401 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -4417,7 +4417,8 @@ Finally Cody added the [try.sh](/2018/burton2/try.sh) script.
 
 ## <a name="2018_ciura"></a>[2018/ciura](/2018/ciura/prog.c) ([README.md](/2018/ciura/README.md))
 
-[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](/2018/ciura/try.sh) script and the PDF file,
+[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](/2018/ciura/try.sh) and
+[try.alt.sh](/2018/ciura/try.alt.sh) scripts and the PDF file,
 [lexicon.pdf](/2018/ciura/lexicon.pdf), that was a dead link, restored from the
 Internet Wayback Machine.