It should look something like this:
[1] HOW TO PLAY
[2] PLAY
[3] SHOW SCORE AND STREAK
[4] EXIT
So write 2 to start the game.
Yes, Im with Win 11. Maybe you should try with some SCREEN mode, might help. Here is link to screenshot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qCsBNROyLCG-9n62xTvO8zj8giGGtD2/view?usp=shari...
I'm not really sure, but I think it might be an issue with my C library. I could be "letting" some corrupt characters into the standard output stream and they somehow end up in the game. Does this still happen with the latest update? Otherwise I will keep investigating it but I won't be able to test it until around April 15th (on the system where the issue happens). Sorry about that. :(