Copyright: Hangman v1.2, Copyright ® 1995 C. Masar


Hangman Help Contents
Hangman version 1.2
Copyright © 1995 Charles Masar

About Hangman

Hangman is a Windows version of the classic children's game.  The game selects a random word from a user supplied list and challenges you to either guess what the word is by selecting it's letters or be hanged by the neck.  Use the supplied list of over 13,000 words or create your own word list.  This game was designed to help students learn vocabulary words in a way that is hopefully entertaining as well as educational.

Hangman is distributed as free shareware.  Please pass it along unmodified and without charge.

Contents

Making a Hangman data file

The Hangman menu

Changing the game options


Making a Hangman data file
Making a Hangman data file:

Making the file

You can use Notepad or any text editor to make a Hangman data file.  All you need to do is put each word on a separate line and put a count of the number of words that you want to use on the first line (see the example).  The game will select a random number between one and the number that it finds on the first line.  Hangman will then read the word from the data file that corresponds to that random number.  The words can be in either uppercase or lowercase letters (they will be converted to uppercase) and can have a maximum of twenty characters.  Only the letters A through Z and a through z are allowed.  By convention the Hangman data file should have the extension *.dat.

Example

5 Words

Airport

Banana

Cuckoo

Damages

Excitement

Friendly

In this example only the first five words (Airport through Excitement) are used.


The Hangman menu
The Hangman menu:

Game menu

New Game:	Starts a new game.

Options:	Allows you to change the game options.

Sounds:	Enables sound effects if checked.

Show Score:	Shows your current score.

Exit:	Exits the game.

Help menu

Contents:	Opens this help file.

Using Help:	Displays information on how to use the Windows WinHelp environment.

About Hangman:	Shows the About Hangman window.


Changing the game options
Changing the game options:

Changing the options

You can change the Hangman options when the game first starts, or you can select the Option item in the Game menu to bring up the Hangman Options dialog box.  Changing either the player name or the level will cause the score to be reset to 0 wins and 0 losses.

Hangman Options

Player:	Enter the player name (up to a maximum of twenty characters).

File:	Hit the Browse button to change the Hangman data file name.

Level:	Choose the game level.  You can have up to six misses with the Hard level, eight misses with the Medium level, and ten misses with the Easy level.

Enabling Sound

Sound is enabled when the Sounds menu item is checked.  This requires a Windows compatible sound card and driver.


H A N G M A N

version 1.2

Copyright © 1995
Charles Masar