Hangman — Guess the Word One Letter at a Time
Hangman is the word game almost everyone learns on the back of a school exercise book: one player picks a secret word, the other guesses letters, and every wrong guess adds another line to the drawing. Get the word before the figure is finished and you win. This version plays the same way, except the computer picks the word and you never run out of paper.
Each round draws a word at random from a bank of more than ninety entries covering nature, objects, places, science and everyday life. Every word comes with a one-line clue, shown from the moment the round starts. The clue is deliberate: pure blind guessing turns into a vowel-first grind, whereas a hint narrows the field and turns the round into an actual deduction puzzle. You still get six wrong guesses, so the clue makes the game more interesting rather than easier.
Guess by tapping the on-screen keyboard or just typing on a physical one — both work, and used letters grey out so you never waste a turn repeating yourself. Correct letters fill into the blanks immediately, wrong ones add a body part to the figure and drop your remaining guesses. If you run out, the full word is revealed with the letters you missed highlighted, which is the part that actually teaches you something for the next round.
A streak counter tracks how many words you have solved in a row and remembers your best run for the session. Words you have already seen are held back until the bank is exhausted, so a long sitting keeps giving you new material instead of cycling the same handful of answers.
Nothing here needs an account, a download, or a plugin. The whole game is a few kilobytes of JavaScript running in your own browser — no scores are uploaded, no data is collected, and it works offline once the page has loaded. It runs on a phone as happily as on a desktop, which makes it a reasonable way to fill five minutes in a queue, and a genuinely useful classroom or ESL warm-up on a shared screen.
How to play Hangman
- Press "Start game" to draw a random word and reveal its clue.
- Tap a letter on the on-screen keyboard, or just type it on your physical keyboard.
- Correct letters fill into the blanks; wrong ones cost you one of your six guesses.
- Use the clue under the word to narrow down what it could be before spending guesses on rare letters.
- Solve it to extend your streak, then press "Next word" to keep playing.