hangman
Noose-wielding official
Hangman is a word-guessing game where one player thinks of a word and another tries to guess it letter by letter.
Wrong guesses add body parts to a stick figure being hanged; too many mistakes and the figure is complete—you lose.
We played hangman on the back of the menu while waiting for our food.
A hangman is also a person who executes condemned prisoners by hanging.
Execution hanging apparatus
- nooseLoop that constricts
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
death penalty · capital punishment · gibbet · judicial · trapdoor · hood · rope · drop
Estimating without certainty
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- stick figureSimplified human drawing
word puzzle · clue · deduction · strategy · turns · reveal · solve · alphabet
Alphabetic characters or mail
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- vocabularyOne's word collection
- spellingCorrect letter sequence
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
word game · puzzle · charade · guessing game · category · theme · secret word · reveal
Stretched or strained state
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- nail-bitingExtremely tense or anxious
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
uncertainty · countdown · foreboding · apprehension · edge-of-seat · ominous · fear · ticking clock
gallows
Execution hanging apparatus
- nooseLoop that constricts
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
executioner · death penalty · capital punishment · gibbet · judicial · trapdoor · hood · rope · drop · sentence
guessing
Estimating without certainty
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
stick figure · word puzzle · clue · deduction · strategy · turns · reveal · solve · alphabet · dashes
letters
Alphabetic characters or mail
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- vocabularyOne's word collection
- spellingCorrect letter sequence
alphabet · word game · puzzle · charade · guessing game · category · theme · secret word · reveal
tension
Stretched or strained state
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- nail-bitingExtremely tense or anxious
anxiety · uncertainty · countdown · foreboding · apprehension · edge-of-seat · ominous · fear · ticking clock · pressure
- word gamescrossword, Scrabble, crossword puzzle, anagram, word game
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- guessingguess, prediction, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation
- paper gamestic-tac-toe, dots and boxes, battleship, boxes, sprouts
- road trip activitieslicense plate game, slug bug, punch buggy, alphabet game, travel bingo
- text gamestext adventure, interactive fiction, adventure game, word game, word puzzle
hangmancondemned
Officially declared unfit
victim · executed · prisoner · death row inmate · convict
hangmanjudge
One who decides
pardoner · governor · magistrate · jury · defense attorney
- hangman's nooseFatal strangling loop