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This hangman trades the gallows for a bunch of balloons: each wrong letter pops one. Otherwise the rules are the classic ones. The blanks tell you how long the word is, and a right letter fills in every blank where it appears.
- Choose a Category, or leave it on Any category.
- Choose your Balloons: 6, 8 or 10. More balloons means more wrong guesses allowed.
- Pick a letter on the screen, or type it.
- Each miss costs a balloon. Complete the word while at least one is still floating.
- Solve words back to back to grow your Streak. Best remembers your longest.
Controls
- Letters: tap them on the screen, or type them.
- Hint shows one letter of the word, and it costs a balloon.
- Skip word moves on to a new word.
- If typed letters don't show up, click the game once so it has focus.
Tips
- Start with vowels like E, A and O, then the most common consonants, such as T, N, S, R and L.
- Let the category guide you. Four letters in Space could be moon, mars or star.
- Short words packed with rare letters, such as fizz or onyx, are the toughest.
- Watch for word endings such as -ing, -er and -tion.
- Playing with younger kids? Give them 10 balloons.
FAQ
How many wrong guesses do I get?
As many as you have balloons: 6, 8 or 10. The pen-and-paper version usually allows six misses, since the stick figure has six parts: head, body, both arms and both legs.
Why balloons instead of a gallows?
It's the same game with a friendlier picture, which makes it easy to use in a classroom.
What categories are there?
Fourteen: animals, food, fruit and vegetables, sports, jobs, at school, nature, space, music, around the house, clothes, transport, countries, and hard words. Any category mixes them all.
Can I play hangman at school?
Hangman runs in an ordinary browser tab with nothing to install, so a school Chromebook can play it. Whether the page opens on a school network is the school's call, and if it is blocked there, only the IT team can change that.
