Talk:Hangman (game)

message: Does anyon know the origin of the game Hangman?  It's such a morbid notion for a game that I wonder where it comes from.
jim@purple.com
Don't know jim, I have done more than a few google searches on the term myself. If I ever find an answer, I'll update here as well as email you. If you get an answer, please update the page.GameMan
Would appreciate any thoughts from others as to whether links to a few examples of online hangman games would be appropriate here. My personal feeling is that they would be. I believe the history of the page shows it is unlikely this would become a "link farm", as long as the links were kept relevant.
Another editor has disagreed, and suggested I ask for feedback here. All constructive comments are welcome.GameMan
After further discussion with the other editor, we have agreed a limited number of links to examples of the game would not present a problem on this page.GameMan
:I had to remove these hangman links because they all lead to Google Adsense linkfarms.  If we can find a hangman game with no ads, I would accept that but ideally, I don't think this article needs any links.  Monkeyman(talk) 13:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added in a link to a no-ad site.  I hope this is an acceptable compromise.  Monkeyman(talk) 13:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: I am sure I once read that the order of frequency of the nine most common letters in English goes like this:
ETAONRISH
This is different to what the article says. I am aware that there are disputes about letter frequency, if no one disputes that E, T and A are the three most common letters in English. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:45, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Letter frequency

message: * Mystery Word - a game for Speak & Spell console (1978)
* TickleTux Hangman - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tickletux/
* Hangman for DOS/Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hangit/
* hangman - console based hangman - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hangman/
* hangman2 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hangman2/
—  Ark25  (talk) 21:15, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hangman video games 

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message: Just wondering if something should be inserted about the violence of this game, namely that a human being is being "hanged" 120.29.53.223 (talk) 07:21, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that is obvious, isn't it? I have seen objections to the game because of the violence. A mention of them might be added. I have actually written a comparable game myself, for use by language students, in which the player starts out with a complete pie and every mistaken guess removes one of the eight wedges.Bill (talk) 03:58, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Violence of game 

message: Je joue au pendu en dessinant un pendu.
Je n'ai jamais vu la forme évoquée dans l'article 77.131.128.128 (talk) 08:45, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Qu'est-ce que vous voulez dire? Vous ne dessinez que le pendu, pas la potence?Bill (talk) 03:56, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  France 

message: When the language includes accented Latin letters, such as Ä in German, is it customary to (1) treat that as a distinct letter, or (2) leave two spaces and treat it as the digraph "AE" (for languages/alphabets where this makes sense!), or (3) treat it as a match when "A" is guessed, or (4) treat the diacritical mark as punctuation that's provided in advance as part of the shape of the word?  Joule36e5 (talk) 00:51, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended alphabets (French, German, etc.) 

message: Searching for the origin of hangman I keep coming across to this reference to the Rite of Words & Life, where a prisoner could win their freedom by guessing a word, being hanged if they couldn't. The sources describe it being the origin of Hangman.
Does anyone have any details on the rite of words & life? So far my sources are a few random websites and one Quora answer. It sounds completely made up to me but I'm not an expert. 2001:8003:8888:4E00:B8AA:1C63:B506:BDCE (talk) 14:33, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rite of words and life 

message: Watermelon 49.206.6.93 (talk) 08:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fruit 

message: Sulaiman read a book🙂 37.36.209.245 (talk) 13:10, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books 

message: Sulaiman read a book 37.36.209.245 (talk) 13:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book 

message: I think this game is the best. It is learning worthy and helps with your brain. I find it very distressing and it helps when I have things on my mind. 80.0.44.11 (talk) 18:41, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hangman 

message: I can't find a reputable source for it, but the article should have illustrations of the strokes to draw before the game is over. If there are several standards, they can be compared. If a source is found, please ping me and I'll draw them. Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:20, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strokes to draw stick figure