Updates to the Hangman application
I had no idea that this game would be so popular! Despite the crappy graphics, it’s been referred half a dozen times, and received almost 300 unique hits in the last 24-hours. Pretty amazing!
Here’s the link to Hangman. Give it a try. Here’s the original Hangman announcement.
There have been a few updates to the original program, including:
- Includes the definition of the word; calls a .NET web service that parses a web response from Dictionary.com (please let me know if you find problems!)
- Tracks statistics (e.g. total times played, won, and lost); so far we lose a LOT more
- Frees the man from the noose if you win
Yes, they’re all silly little updates, but hopefully it increases the enjoyment of the game.
Here are a couple screen shots with the updates. The first one shows what happens when you die, err, lose.
This next one shows what happens when you win. Doesn’t that look a lot more pleasant?
This sure is fun stuff to play with. Now that I feel more comfortable with Silverlight and WPF, there are all kinds of things I’d like to write. It’s a shame I’m not more artistic.
Anyone out there have some mad artistic skills that would like to team up with me?
Best of luck!
That’s a great feature to add, I was seriously starting to think your app is making up words
No, they’re real words!
If you take a look at one of my previous posts, Devising a strategy to (consistently) win Hangman, you’ll see that I grabbed these words out of a dictionary file, parsed them into separate files based on character count, and extracted some statistics out of the data.
Sadly, I find that I only know 1 in 10 of the words it grabs (okay, maybe 1 in 20).