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Hangmanagrams #1008568
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Greetings fellow addicts! welcome This game is a slight twist on the old schooldays word guessing game to gently tickle your grey cells. Here, the guessers start off by building a nonsense anagram of the answer, because the setter will simply enter each correctly guessed letter (including any duplicates) into the first available space(s) in the outline, except for the first letter of each word which will be correctly placed. At some point, there will be enough letters to create scope for a guess at the answer by unscrambling them, or at least that is the general idea...

Rather than being limited to a single word the puzzle will often be a title or character, adding a flavour of the game of charades.

Please read the instructions carefully as these are not the usual rules of the traditional game. Hopefully everything is reasonably clear, but please do not hesitate to ask for help or clarification.

The rules

(i) The setter puts up the outline of a word or a short reasonably well-known expression in blank (so that all the other players know are the numbers of words and of letters in each word) together with an indication of the nature or category of the word/expression. An expression might be for example a book, play, film or music title or the name of a famous person or character, or perhaps a proverb or saying: it is entirely up to the setter, but please give enough of a hint to narrow the category.

(ii) Someone else posts at least two letters which he/she thinks might be in the word/expression.

(iii) The setter enters into the outline any correctly guessed letter, but only in its correct position if it is the first letter of a word: otherwise the letter and any repetition of it will simply be placed in the first available empty space (which might entirely coincidentally be its correct position). The space for the first letter of each word is therefore left blank until that letter is correctly guessed.

(iv) Meanwhile the setter also starts to add the hanged person to the gallows with one step for each incorrectly guessed letter or position of letter. Seven steps are needed to complete the victim (head, body, right leg, left leg, right arm, left arm, face). [If having to do this deters you from playing, feel free not to bother.]

(v) Someone posts another two (or more) letter guesses and/or a guess at the correct position in the outline of at least one of the already posted letters, and so on. There is nothing to prevent the same person from posting consecutive guesses, or even hogging an entire game; on the other hand, do not hesitate to steal a game from under someone else's nose!

(vi) The setter keeps score by posting a list of wrong guesses and the number of steps remaining.

(vii) Once only two steps remain, single letter guesses are permitted.

(viii) At any stage anyone can try to guess the whole word/expression or individual words of an expression consisting of more than one word, and each wrong word guess results in two steps towards the completion of the picture, but without any indication of whether any of the individual letters guessed (in a wrong word) are correct.

(ix) Any letter appearing in its correct position (whether coincidentally or as a result of a correct position guess, or because it is the first letter of a word) will be shown in bold italic.

(x) Apostrophes will not be shown, and any letter following an apostrophe will be counted as part of the word which it follows (so that for instance Wayne's World would be two words 6,5). Any other punctuation will usually be omitted (including hyphens).

(xi) The setter wins if the picture of the hanged person is completed: otherwise the person to correctly guess the word/expression is the winner, and hopefully then sets the next word/expression. Don't be afraid to have a go: there is plenty of help available if you have any difficulty, and you can always edit your way out of any errors.

Note for setters on creating the picture of the gallows and hanged person

The picture steps (kindly contributed by Pandora) are in a photobucket album on the internet which are accessed by using one of the urls (web addresses) below, and here's how you do it:

In the full reply screen one of the option buttons across the top is "enter an image" which then offers you a choice of various image positions to insert followed by a dialogue box for a url.

You just copy and paste the url you need, deleting and replacing (using the edit process) as you go through the game and want to change the picture.

[I have been using the position "non-floating image"]

The urls

The gallows, in place at the start of the game
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/G4.gif

Step one, the head of the condemned person
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H1.gif

Step two, the body
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H2.gif

Step three, the right leg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H3.gif

Step four, the left leg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H4.gif

Step five, the right arm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H5.gif

Step six, the left arm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H6.gif

Step seven, the head - game over!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/PandoraSD/Hangman/H10.gif


Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008569
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A TV series from the past..(4,6,5)

H E E E * _ L L L _ _ * B _ _ _ _

Hill Street Blues solved by Urban Warrior thumbsup

incorrect guesses: A, N
steps remaining: 5




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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008570
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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: Lex] #1008572
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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008580
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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: Lex] #1008585
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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008589
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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: Urban Worrier] #1008594
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thumbsup UW Welcome


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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008679
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It's been a while, manxman - to Mrs Worrier's disgust I never read instructions, so wasn't quite sure what to do until I buckled down and read Lex's carefully constructed rules lol

The series of which I have all 146 episodes on video: "Hill Street Blues"


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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008680
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Welcome Rog, and well guessed: what a great series that was! smile

Hope you enjoy this little brain-teaser of a game.

Last edited by Lex; 03/31/15 12:34 PM.

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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: Urban Worrier] #1008698
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Well done UW. Now you get to post your choice for us smile


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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008699
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Thanks, manxman.

Off we go, and let me know if I look like making a rat's armpit of things:

Pre-war classic film (10,8)

_ T T T E E A I I N * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Incorrect guesses: R
Steps remaining: 6





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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: Urban Worrier] #1008733
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It says (10,8) but the blanks are (8,7) think


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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008754
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I think Rog has assumed that * denotes the first letter of each word, whereas all it does is denote the gap between words (as for some reason this cannot be made apparent by simply leaving a larger gap between the blanks). wink

BTW are the armpits of rats known to be particularly fragrant? This is not an expression I have seen before (although a rat's posterior is a common point of reference in this household!).

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Re: Hangmanagrams [Re: manxman] #1008774
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Thank you, Lex - the malodorous rat strikes again. slapforehead Correction made (I hope)

A whole raft of Ts, manxman, and a pair of Es to go with them. Looks like a pretty good start! smile


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Lucky guesses. Let's try A, R this time wave


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A looks good, but - nada for R smile

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If it's what I think it may be, there is in fact an A (and setters' errors are no strangers to this game)....and I will also guess I and N. smile


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A lot of editing and a lot of egg on the face are now called for oops

Looks like you have it, Lex - two good ones smile


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Editing and corrections are to be considered de rigueur as part of the mental juggling of the letters... lol

Battleship Potemkin?


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Take it away, Mr L grin


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This one is the normally used rather than absolutely full name of a well known person from public life 7,9:

W T R S O I I * C N N C _ _ _ _ _

Winston Churchill per Manxman

Wrong guesses: EA
Steps remaining: 6

sherlock blackkitty


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T but not E. smile

I have slightly narrowed the category although doubt that this was really necessary.

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