Play Hangman free in your browser. Guess the hidden word letter by letter before six wrong tries. Themed words, on-screen keyboard, no install.
Tap letters on the keyboard, or type on your physical keyboard. Correct letters fill the blanks; six wrong guesses ends the run.
Hangman is a word-guessing game so old that no one is quite sure who invented it. It was already being played with pencil and paper in Victorian times, passed between schoolchildren and travellers as a way to pass a quiet hour. One player picks a secret word, the other calls out letters, and every wrong guess adds a line to a little stick figure on a gallows.
This version keeps the heart of the game and removes the paper. A hidden word is shown as a row of blanks, with a category — animal, food, country, sport and more — as your only clue. Tap letters on the keyboard, on screen or physical. Right letters fill in the blanks; wrong ones build the figure piece by piece, and six mistakes end the word.
It is played as a run. Solve a word and you bank points and move straight to the next one, the score climbing with every win. But a single word you fail to crack ends the whole run. The question is never just "what is this word" — it is "how many words in a row can you read out of thin air?"
A hidden word is shown as blank spaces. Guess one letter at a time using the on-screen or your physical keyboard. Correct letters fill the blanks; wrong letters draw the figure. Reveal the whole word before six wrong guesses.
Six. Each wrong letter adds one part to the hanged figure — head, body, two arms and two legs. The sixth wrong guess completes the figure and you lose the word.
Every word belongs to a category — such as animal, food or country — shown above the blanks. It is your only clue to what the word might be, so use it to guide your guesses.
Each word you solve adds points, and the more guesses you had left, the more it is worth. Points build up across the words you solve in a single run.
The run continues as long as you keep solving words. The first word you fail to guess — six wrong letters — ends the run, and your final score is saved if it is a new best.
Yes. Your highest run score is stored in your browser and shown each game, so there is always a personal record to beat.
Every word you solve earns coins, and solving words in a row builds a multiplier that boosts both your score and your coins. Coins are saved between runs. When you are stuck, the Hint button spends a few coins to reveal one unguessed letter — once per word — so save them for the words that really need it.