hangman.py

A traditional hangman game.

Guessed letters
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_O_ELESS
POPELESS
You lose

What?

Play a single player hangman game.

You can use a custom dictionary, word or phrase.\
You can use a custom hangman figure

usage: hangman.py [-h] [-d DICTIONARY] [-w WORD] [-p PHRASE [PHRASE ...]] [-l LENGTH] [-x LENGTH_MAX] [-m LENGTH_MIN] [-c]

A traditional hangman game.

optional arguments:
    -h, --help
            show this help message and exit
    -d DICTIONARY, --dict DICTIONARY
            Dictionary file to use
            Default: /Users/syoung/Documents/GitHub/hangman/oxford5000.txt
    -w WORD, --word WORD
            Word or phrase to use
            Default: Random selection from the dictionary
    -p PHRASE [PHRASE ...], --phrase PHRASE [PHRASE ...]
            Word or phrase to use
            Default: Random word from the dictionary
    -l LENGTH, --length LENGTH
            Only a fixed length word is generated
            Note: Overrides minimum and maximum values
    -x LENGTH_MAX, --max LENGTH_MAX
            Maximum word length generated
            Default: 32
    -m LENGTH_MIN, --min LENGTH_MIN
            Minimum word length generated
            Default: 1
    -c, --continuous
            Continue until exit
            Default: False

Why?

While, I am sure this has been done to death. The world can always use another hangman challenge. No, that's not why. Partially just looking for a something to code and I wanted to create a proper "hangman" and the challenge of creating and storing that art.

Improvements?

I think a basic b&w image converter to the stored graphics, maybe online mode. What can you really do with an early childhood game like this? 3D?

State?

No known bugs. Works.

New

1.1

• Added continuous mode
• Added support for special characters
• Defaults to oxford 5000 so that the words are not complete unknowns
• Included oxford 3000 for easier play