Word guessing game with 5 categories (animals, countries, food, technology, sports), SVG animation, and hints
Guess the hidden word one letter at a time before the stick figure is fully drawn. Wrong guesses bring the hangman closer to completion, can you solve it in time?
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Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries. Color-coded hints show correct, present, and absent letters. Track your stats and streaks.
Slide numbered tiles to combine and reach 2048! Features touch/swipe support, undo functionality, and score tracking
Classic tic-tac-toe game with AI opponent using minimax algorithm. Three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard
The word is 6 letters, you have guessed E (hit) and the pattern is _ E _ _ E _ with 5 guesses left.
Input
Guess the consonant "R"
Result
_ E _ _ E R revealed → strong lead toward a common -ER ending
Optimal hangman is frequency-driven: guess high-information letters first (E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S) and use the revealed pattern to prune the candidate word list. A late-position R fitting a "_E__ER" frame sharply narrows the possibilities.
Guess the hidden word one letter at a time before the stick figure is fully drawn. Wrong guesses bring the hangman closer to completion, can you solve it in time?
Encountering new words in hangman is a fun way to expand your vocabulary.
Teachers use hangman to make spelling practice more engaging for students.
This Hangman draws from a built-in dictionary of roughly 1,500 words across eight curated categories (animals, countries, food, technology, sports, movies, science, and music), and every single entry ships with both a definition and a short hint, so it doubles as a vocabulary trainer rather than plain letter-guessing. Four difficulty tiers reshape each round: Easy allows 8 wrong guesses and 3 free hints with words 3 to 6 letters long; Normal gives 6 wrong guesses and 2 hints (5 to 10 letters); Hard drops to 5 wrong guesses and 1 hint (7 to 15 letters); and Expert allows only 4 wrong guesses, zero hints, and words 10 to 20 letters long. The word picker filters the chosen category to the difficulty's length window before selecting at random, falling back to the unfiltered list only if nothing fits.
Five game modes change the loss condition and stakes. Classic has no timer; Timed runs a countdown equal to the difficulty's time limit (180s Easy down to 60s Expert) with a ticking sound in the last 10 seconds; Survival carries wrong guesses across rounds via a shared deficit (each lost game subtracts from your future wrong-guess allowance, each win earns one back); Daily uses a date-seeded word (the seed is year*10000 + month*100 + day, modulo the full word pool) so everyone gets the same word and category each day; and Zen mode lets you keep guessing without a real loss state. A combo counter rewards consecutive correct letters, and the score formula is concrete: base of word-length times 100, plus a time bonus (remaining seconds times 2), an accuracy bonus (unused wrong guesses times 50), a streak bonus (current streak times 25), and a combo bonus, minus 100 per hint used, all multiplied by a difficulty multiplier of 1x/1.5x/2x/3x.
Wins pay coins (score divided by 10, plus a 50-coin bonus for a perfect game with no wrong guesses and no hints), which fund four purchasable power-ups: Freeze Time (100 coins, pauses the Timed-mode clock for 30 seconds), Reveal Vowels (150 coins, fills in every a/e/i/o/u present in the word), Extra Life (200 coins, adds one wrong-guess allowance), and 50/50 (125 coins, greys out half of the remaining wrong letters on the keyboard). Progress persists in localStorage (coins, streaks, best scores per difficulty, fastest win, dailies completed) and feeds 20 achievements spanning common to legendary rarity, such as Speed Demon for a sub-15-second win and Hangman Master for 500 games. Supporting touches include physical-keyboard input for letters, five visual themes (Classic, Space, Underwater, Neon, Forest), canvas confetti on a win, an on-screen ETAOIN-style letter-frequency chart, and oscillator-generated sound effects via the Web Audio API.
You typically get 6 wrong guesses before the hangman is complete and the game ends.
Yes, select from different categories to focus on topics you find interesting.
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