# Wand of sleep

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Name

sleep

Appearance

random

Abundance

5%

Base price

175 zm

Weight

7

Type

ray

Maximum charges

8  

Spell

sleep

Monster use

May be used offensively by monsters.

The wand of sleep is a wand in NetHack.

Effect
When zapped, it emits a ray that puts monsters it hits to sleep for 6d25 turns, unless they resist. Bolts of sleep can bounce from walls and unrevealed secret doors, but are absorbed by non-secret or discovered secret doors.

Strategy
You can use it to help defeat (or escape) a difficult monster(s) unless they have sleep resistance; just be careful where the beam bounces. In a co-aligned temple, you can use this wand to park a heavy monster on the altar so that you can kill it there without having it run away from you.
When engraving, this wand gives the same message as a wand of death. If the wand was not generated in a monster's inventory, the odds are 6:1 for it being sleep.

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