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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
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Hangman Game Update
Monday, January 14, 2008
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Hangman is one of the very oldest games on The Problem Site; it has been on the site almost since the very beginning. It has also undergone changes a couple times.
One thing that hasn't changed is the dictionary on which the game is based. At the time the game was created, I found a 17 thousand word dictionary which was about the best I could find.
However, that the word list was not very accurate; it contained a variety of misspellings, which were (of course!) very frustrating for hangman players.
Since then, I have switched to using the Enable2K dictionary for new word games, but never took the time to update hangman.
That change, finally, has been done. Hangman now uses a word list containing not 17 thousand but 170 thousand words.
Play Hangman!Labels: hangman, theproblemsite
posted by Douglas Twitchell at
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