Playing this Hangman game is easy: Simply download the repository to your computer and run hangman.py! The game comes with its own included word list, wordlist.txt, which contains a list of 58,000+ English words from which the game can draw.
Want to specify your own list of words in place of the included wordlist.txt? Simply overwrite that file with a text file of your own of the same filename, with each word on a separate line. Compound words with spaces involved work, too (eg., ice cream).
You can also add new words onto the included wordlist.txt file to be used in the game. Words can be added at any place in the file but, again, add one word per line.
- Have Python 3.3 installed on your computer
The program was written by Tom Catullo (tcatullo25*{at}gmail{dot}*com) as a leisurely project. I was learning Python in a class and decided to apply it to a project of my own to get some experience, and to have some fun. This was the result!
- The included graphics library,
graphics.py, was written by John Zelle for use with the book "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science" (Franklin, Beedle & Associates). Note: I only used this particular graphics library because it was included with the textbook used in my university class; however, I am aware that there are much better alternatives out there. - The content of the included
wordlist.txtfile was obtained from http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html.