Hangman
In Hangman you guess the word one letter at a time with a definition as a clue. Six wrong guesses end the round. Free, no install, no sign-up.
In Hangman, a word is hidden and a one-line definition is shown. Tap letters to guess. A correct letter reveals every place it appears; six wrong guesses end the round.
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Works offline after the first visit. No install, no sign-up.
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How to play Hangman
A definition is always given
Every round shows a short description of the hidden word, taken from the same word list the answer comes from. You are never asked to guess blind.
Correct letters reveal every occurrence
Guessing a letter that appears in the word reveals it in all its positions at once, so a letter appearing three times is worth three slots in one guess.
Guessing the same letter twice is not a mistake
Letters you have already tried are greyed out and tapping one again does nothing at all — it does not count against your six. Re-tapping a key by accident cannot cost you a life.
Six wrong guesses
The counter at the top shows how many you have used. On the sixth the round ends and the word is shown.
The drawing is six geometric strokes
As guesses are used up, lines are added one at a time to a simple frame: base, post, beam, brace, line and a circle. It is built from straight lines and one circle, and does not depict a person or any recognisable figure.
Scoring
Each word you complete counts. The round continues with a new word after every solved one, with a fresh six guesses.
Hangman Tips and Strategy
Six misses end the run
The miss counter resets with every new word, but the sixth miss ends the entire game rather than just the word you were on. That makes an early guess on a letter the definition is genuinely pointing at worth taking, because a wrong letter costs a life you cannot earn back inside that word.
Repeating a letter is free
A letter you have already tried turns grey, and clicking it again costs nothing at all. The risk lives entirely in first attempts, so work outward from the letters the definition and the visible slots suggest, and never re-click a greyed key expecting a different result.
Vowels are the safe spend
Every one of the eighty words in the pool contains at least one vowel, and E appears in fifty of them. Once you have read the definition and placed the consonants it clearly implies, a vowel is the cheapest kind of letter to risk a life on.
Hangman — Frequently Asked Questions
I tapped a letter twice — did I lose a guess?
No. Tapping an already-guessed letter does nothing and does not count against your six. Only a genuinely new wrong letter costs one.
How do I know which letters I have tried?
Tried letters turn green if they were in the word and grey if they were not. Grey keys are inert.
What is being drawn?
Six geometric strokes added one per wrong guess. It is a plain frame of straight lines and a circle, not a picture of a person.
Does it need installing or an account?
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer and works offline after the first visit.
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