Hangman is a traditional children's game, typically played with words. It's possible, however, to play Category Hangman --- rather than guessing words the player might guess names of cities, or athletes, or fictional characters, names of lego minifigures or top forty song titles --- the list is endless.
You'll be writing a program to play a "guess a word letter-by-letter" version of hangman as shown below and decribed in detail in the howto pages. We'll also see how to translate the Python code students write into a version that will play on the web using other languages. This program will also be the basis for writing a "cheating hangman" that essentially almost never loses (by cheating, though you, the guesser, won't know that.)
According to this article the hardest words to guess in hangman are jazz, buzz, and jazzed if you lose with 8 misses though with 11 misses allowed jazzed is apparently harder to guess than buzz.
Details and guidelines of how to organize the program, including the methods you should write, are describd in the howto pages. It's important to adhere to these guidelines so that if we give you some graphics-oriented code to include with hangman pictures you can do that simply after writing your program.
In the run below the user input is in italics, the other text is printed by the program.
# letters in word: 8 # guesses to hanging: 7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ misses left: 7 guesses so far: guess letter: e no e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ misses left: 6 guesses so far: e guess letter: a no a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ misses left: 5 guesses so far: a e guess letter: o no o _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ misses left: 4 guesses so far: a e o guess letter: u no u _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ misses left: 3 guesses so far: a u e o guess letter: i _ _ _ i _ _ i _ misses left: 3 guesses so far: a u e o guess letter: s no s _ _ _ i _ _ i _ misses left: 2 guesses so far: a e o s u guess letter: t no t _ _ _ i _ _ i _ misses left: 1 guesses so far: a e o s u t guess letter: r _ _ r i _ _ i _ misses left: 1 guesses so far: a e o s u t guess letter: n no n you are hung :-(, secret word is cyrillic
Submit using the submit name hangman.