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Hangman That Cheats
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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Yesterday I posted a notice that the dictionary used by Hangman has been updated. What I didn't tell you is that I was working on a brand new version of Hangman.
A game of Hangman that CHEATS!
This is a game idea I built several years ago, which I used to torment friends and relatives. But I didn't put it on any of my sites, because I'm not quite mean enough to want to torment complete strangers with a game that cheats.
But someone reminded me of the game recently, and I decided it would be okay to put it on the site, with appropriate notification that the game was cheating, so no one would get too frustrated with it.
So I redesigned the game to go on The Problem Site
Really, the challenge on this game is to figure out how the game cheats. Once you think you've figured it out, go ahead and scroll down to the bottom of the game page to find out if you're right!
Here's the game: Cheater Hangman
Enjoy!Labels: hangman, theproblemsite
posted by Douglas Twitchell at
4 Comments:
Very good. I thought that was what was happening after the first game. I fund the enable2k database, then cheated using grep on my Mac along with your game. Start by knocking out the common vowels. The game really likes tsktsk and tsktsks.:)
that's right - of course, the game likes those words because of the sequence of letters you're eliminating. Start out eliminating different letters and it'll zero in on other words.
I had an interesting one this morning...I managed, with four guesses left, to get the following:
_ I N N I N G
What's really funny is that, one you get to this point, it is impossible to win, because there's more than four words that end with "inning", so you're guaranteed to run out of guesses! :)
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