HANGMAN

About Hangman

Hangman is the classic word-guessing game from school notebooks, ready to play on screen with up to four people. Somebody's stickman is on the line, and every wrong letter brings him one step closer to the end. It is a good way to practise spelling and vocabulary while still feeling like a game.

How to play

First choose how many players will take part. Then choose the word topics. You can pick shapes, colours, professions, fruits, animals and more, or keep it easy with a single topic. If you select every topic, the game tells you which topic the current word belongs to. Each level has 10 words to guess. Players take turns choosing letters. A correct letter fills in every place it appears in the word, and the same player keeps going. A wrong letter adds another body part to the stickman on the rope. Solve the word before the drawing is finished.

Controls

• Choose letters and menu options: mouse click

Tips

• Start with common vowels such as E and A, then try frequent consonants like R, S and T.
• Use the topic. Knowing a word is a fruit or a job cuts the possibilities down quickly.
• Look at the word length and the letters already shown before you guess. The shape of the word is often a big clue.