Freeman is a variation of the old word guess game of Hangman, but with a more positive twist.
Instead of negative consequences for wrong guesses as in the game Hangman, in Freeman there are no changes for wrong guesses, however you are set free from a virtual jail for correct ones. The player starts out in a virtual jail cell and bars disappear from the cell as each letter of the word is correctly guessed. When the player accomplishes the entire word and wins the game, he is set free. Since the students with whom we work are presently detained by the court in the Sierra Youth Center, they in particular relate well to the idea of getting free when they correctly guess the word at hand. Freeman encourages students to think about words and spelling.