hangman is a weird game

"A teacher takes the role of executioner"

"hangman is a game that everyone has played, but no one knows the rules to" uno:

I like the idea that "winning" as the executioner isn't a "I drew the person you lose", it's more of "I got to spend 20 minutes doodling a super detailed person before you finally got it" like the number of lines isn't the guesser's lives, it's the executioner's score.

My school banned hangman due to the nature of hanging someone, so a group of students created a new word guessing game called: "Car crash"

"the guesser" oh ok that name makes sense "the EXECUTIONER" oh ok

> "I've been thinking about hangman a lot recently," are are you okay

There was a trend in my 5th grade class to use the word "rhombicosidodecahedron" as the hangman word. Unfortunately after two uses, the guessers won before all the blanks were drawn

The executioner serves a role, not as a competitor, but as a sort of game master . It's the same idea as a person creating a puzzle for another person to solve. You want to give them a challenge but you also want to see them overcome that challenge. Except for in this case, the puzzle requires another entity to facilitate it, be it a person or computer. It's like the game Mastermind (or Wordle for a more relevant example), where you have to guess the colors or letters in an order, but you need something or someone else to track the puzzle for you since that requires knowing the solution already.

J i'm now the world's best hangman player

We all knew that good guy who put a smilie face, hair, clothes until you got it

Years ago, I played this with my granny on a roadtrip and she couldn't guess the word "camera". I ended up giving the hangman hair, shoes, a face, a purse, and I realised I totally skipped over the letters she guessed right because I was so focussed on dressing it up 😅

The “there’s a better word than jazz by just changing the vowel” joke is underrated

Note to self: Never play hangman with this guy

I’ve never seen hangman done with anything other than a man being hanged, even in a classroom.

it's ironic how most childhood games or rhymes are based on tragedy. london bridge is falling down hangman ring around the rosy jack and jill 'cooties' was coined from kutu, which is a parasitic bug. it really makes you think about the origin of these rhymes/games and why they became so popular for children.

Fhqwgads will always be a real word in our hearts.

I always thought the "don't be a dick" rule was generally universal

My schools didn’t “censor” it when we played. Gallows were almost always included

My mother once, without realizing where she was, picked up a small half-pencil and a peice of paper and loudly asked "ANYBODY WANNA PLAY HANGMAN?!" in an effort to cheer up my brother...in the mental hospital! We were surrounded by teenagers being visited by their parents in a very quiet visitor room. Some had clearly tried to hurt themselves. My mom didn't realize how inappropriate it was until she said it out loud. My brother is doing great now and we still tease my mom for it but at the time my then-partner and I just facepalmed hard.

"You won't be able to convince them that's how hangman works, but the rules are vague enough that you can convince them that you think that's how hangman works" Never has someone so succinctly explained trolling/concern trolling before