I'm viral again!

Published September 08, 2009
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Phase 2 of my "viral" word games is now up today. It's. . .



hangtwit.com

It's pretty-much the same underpinnings as my recently-released cryptotwit.com, except this time it's a hangman game. It uses the same underlying database and phrase list as cryptotwit, so you can switch between the two if you want, using cryptotwit for longer phrases and hangtwit for short phrases or single words.

And, like cryptotwit, it's social-enabled. You can play it at http://apps.facebook.com/hangtwit/ as a facebook app, or you can post your "hangmanified" phrases (a verb coined for the site meaning "to make something into a hangman game") to your facebook wall or twitter stream.

I actually have a "phase three" social word game that'll work in the same way as cryptotwit and hangtwit, although I'm going to work on the mobile stuff a bit and get to it later. It's a mite more ambitious on the client-side, so I might need to contract out some art and music for it.

In the meantime, please give hangtwit a try and lemme know what you think. If you find any bugs and you wanna contact me directly, the easiest way is email. As always I'm john@thecodezone.com


And if you just wanna try a couple of hangtwit games, here are some ready to go.

Here is one I made up this morning. It's fairly easy.

A word I used for all my testing, mainly because it reminded me of LOLcats, which my seven year-old thinks are the funniest things in the universe.

Play a random hard word. Some aren't so hard. Some are nigh impossible.
(I have a few hangman-nightmare words in that list like "strengths", which is a nine-letter word with only one vowel)

Also if you have any good "deadly" hangman words, feel free to post 'em as comments and I'll get 'em in the list. Big thanks!
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benryves
Quote:Original post by johnhattan
Play a random hard word. Some aren't so hard. Some are nigh impossible.
I'll have to admit that staphylococci is not a word I'm familiar with. [wink] (Then again, neither is furlough, but according to the dictionary that's a US English word so I'll let myself off for that one). Great stuff!
September 08, 2009 12:48 PM
Trapper Zoid
In your face, quorum! [grin]

If I have to pick words in Hangman, I tend to use words with repeating letters a lot. The pattern ?o??le is pretty good: bobble, popple, goggle, toggle, woggle, boggle, joggle and so on.
September 09, 2009 11:23 PM
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