Wand of death is a type of wand that projects a death bolt when zapped (essentially Death ray spell for free). The bolt bounces off walls; this means that it can potentially hit the character, though due to the wand's limited range this is a rare case. A wand of death has a range of 6/3/1 for B/U/C respectively, with an additional 1 tile added to range for each 10 character levels. It can also be zapped at character's location by choosing '5', though this should obviously be avoided since the bolt will deal high damage even if PC has resistance to immediate death.