Hangman is a classic word-guessing game. Its origins are not exactly known but it appears to date back to Victorian times. A player writes down the first and last letters of a word and another player guesses the letters in between.
- Program randomly selects a word from a list of secret words.
- Player has limited chances to guess the word.
- When a correct letter is guessed, it is revealed in its correct position.
- Player wins if all letters are guessed before running out of chances.
Steps to Build the Game
- Create a list of words and randomly select one.
- Display blanks (_) for each letter in the word.
- Take a letter as input from the user.
- Check whether the letter exists in the word.
- Reveal correct letters and track wrong guesses.
- Display the Hangman drawing after each incorrect guess.
- End the game when the word is guessed or all chances are used.
Python Implementation
import random
words = ["apple", "banana", "mango", "orange", "grapes", "papaya"]
word = random.choice(words)
guessed = []
wrong_guesses = 0
max_attempts = 6
hangman = [
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print("Welcome to Hangman!")
print("Hint: The word is a fruit.")
while wrong_guesses < max_attempts:
display = ""
for letter in word:
if letter in guessed:
display += letter + " "
else:
display += "_ "
print(hangman[wrong_guesses])
print("Word:", display)
if "_" not in display:
print("Congratulations! You won!")
print("The fruit was:", word)
break
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
if len(guess) != 1 or not guess.isalpha():
print("Please enter one letter.")
continue
if guess in guessed:
print("You already guessed that letter.")
continue
guessed.append(guess)
if guess in word:
print("Correct guess!")
else:
wrong_guesses += 1
print("Wrong guess!")
else:
print(hangman[wrong_guesses])
print("Game Over!")
print("The fruit was:", word)
Output:
Explanation:
- words contains different fruit names.
- random.choice() randomly selects one fruit.
- print() displays the hint: "The word is a fruit."
- guessed stores the letters entered by the player.
- hangman contains the different stages of the Hangman drawing.
- while loop continues the game until the player wins or loses.
- Correct guesses reveal letters; wrong guesses update the Hangman drawing.
- The player wins when all letters are guessed.
- The game ends after 6 wrong guesses.
