Hangman

Time: 1-3 minutes per word/phrase

Age group: depending on the words used 3-99

Goal:

A: guess the word

B: find a difficult word A won't be able to guess

Educative purpose:

Enhance your vocabulary in your first or in a foreign language. Good tool for learning new words.

Things you may need:

pen/pencil and paper or chalk and a blackboard 

How it's played:

1. Player A thinks about a word and draws as many lines ( _ _ _ ) as there are letters in the word and he/she draws a simple gallows with one horizontal and two vertical lines looking somehow like this:

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2. Player B guesses a letter. If it's in the word, player A writes it on the corresponding line(s). If it's not, player A writes the letter under the gallows and draws a part of the hangman - parts should go in this order: (head, body, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg)

3.Repeat step 2 until either player B guesses correctly the word(B wins) or the poor man is hanged which means that player A won.