hangman is a weird game

[@RyanTosh]

"A teacher takes the role of executioner"

[@jumpander]

classic

[@isthisaname8209]

bruh

[@Stickycomix]

My god I love Danganronpa.

[@jaudiego]

Monokuma

[@saifuusuri]

If that doesn't describe school in a nutshell, nothing can.

[@jerry3115]

"the guesser" oh ok that name makes sense "the EXECUTIONER" oh ok

[@AndrewAce.]

I'm sensing a difference in severity here...

[@samanthaclaremejia7975]

It went from 1 to 100 REALLY FAST

[@noahve]

Well he isn't wrong, since the goal of the executioner is to hang the hangman¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@sortasour2964]

www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-game-hangman

[@AhrkFinTey]

my dumb ass: the guesser and the guessee

[@perfectiondreamusa]

how to win as a guesser: use an incredibly complicated strategy how to win as executioner: be a *jerk*

[@renookami4651]

how to win as a guesser: *see that smug face of them and realize they used their favourite "meme" word*

[@wirly-]

Fhqwhgads

[@hitthatneet4235]

be hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

[@donut7374]

Jazz

[@BRLink1]

Kiwi

[@ChakatStormCloud]

I like the idea that "winning" as the executioner isn't a "I drew the person you lose", it's more of "I got to spend 20 minutes doodling a super detailed person before you finally got it" like the number of lines isn't the guesser's lives, it's the executioner's score.

[@WuhHuh]

“I was able to give this dying man a backstory, a home, a family, and you STILL haven’t learned that the word was ‘jizz’!”

[@twelved4983]

@@WuhHuh🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@matiassanchez1362]

​@@twelved4983what jazz is called in the Star Wars universe, clearly (no but for real, that's the canon name for that type of music in those films 💀)

[@26jdaniels]

Who draws a detailed person dawg that’s just odd

[@Will-hd7qj]

what

[@Gloomdrake]

My schools didn’t “censor” it when we played. Gallows were almost always included

[@narobii9815]

Gallows was the only required rule at my school.

[@TheNotverysocial]

Mine neither.

[@livindeadghoul]

Mine neither

[@tweed.k]

idk why, but our hang man loses were to make the hangman's limbs be set on fire or to be cut. Very dark now that I think about it. Like those soldiers using war slaves as target practices

[@rg-ed5fr]

Simón Aguilar jesus christ

[@theprimestskeletron676]

I’ve never seen hangman done with anything other than a man being hanged, even in a classroom.

[@fdsjdhebjcs6726]

my German teacher in primary school thought the hanged man will give us nightmares so she drew a hanged spider

[@oscarchavezavellan2738]

@@fdsjdhebjcs6726 funny, never heard of someone having nightmares because of this, it's kinda of weird if you think about it, the game idea is really brutal after all.

[@WhoopsieDayZ]

@@oscarchavezavellan2738 No it's not. Look at human history. People today are just spoiled and used to living in peace. Never witnessing violence and death. If the game "hangman" is disturbing to you, then I have some bad news for you.

[@oscarchavezavellan2738]

@@WhoopsieDayZ hahaha disturbing wouldn't be the word, for me it's just curious how such a brutal concept of a game could survived within a world that's becoming more and more sensible. I meant weird precisely because how sensible we're nowadays, I'd understand this kind of games in another era, but it's weird how it could survived without a major change in this time. Btw, I've read berserk so this game is faaar away to be disturbing for me, I only think it's funny how a game with such a brutal concept is still considered a game for kids and nobody really thinks how dark the idea of the game is.

[@danielferrusquia1724]

In my elementary school we called it “Build-A-Man”

[@dawk7]

> "I've been thinking about hangman a lot recently," are are you okay

[@avo1675]

That's something jschlatt would post on his community tab tbh

[@Twonkae]

@@avo1675 "Thinking about hanging men."

[@AlbertoLeal22]

Buster wolf

[@timmytatoe4248]

Quarantine takes a lot out of you

[@fresh9530]

it’s quarantine

[@dot_dot-dot-dot]

My school banned hangman due to the nature of hanging someone, so a group of students created a new word guessing game called: "Car crash"

[@plushcentric]

How do you play car crash?

[@Han_Niche]

Man I wish there was a way to make driving more fun A children's spelling game:

[@mako8091]

@rock12419 You just gotta love a child's imagination.

[@rayganparksmitchell]

We should publicly shame schools that ban Hangman. SCHOOLS OFFICALLY HAVE NO RIGHTS TO BAN HANGMAN.

[@shawnbuffalo7154]

@@mako8091You gotta thank the abusive parents for that

[@freekdaniel167]

My teacher called it “hang person” she believed in everyone being hanged equally.

[@randon19yearold]

Props to her 😂

[@RichConnerGMN]

as an enby, i approve

[@TheRenegade...]

But... hangman is a profession. A hanged person is just a criminal.

[@raghuvenkatesan6792]

@@randon19yearold how dare you assume the teacher's gender :o

[@randon19yearold]

@@raghuvenkatesan6792 bruh the original comment literally says “her”

[@gregconen]

As you note, playing to "win" as the executioner is not very fun, but you don't quite make the leap to it not really being an adversarial game. The goal of the executioner is to create a customized challenge for the guesser, calibrating the difficulty to their skill level so it's possible but not trivial. Perhaps the best analogy is a game master in a table-top roleplaying game.

[@Maharani1991]

+

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

"hangman is a simple ttrpg" is quite the take but I am here for it

[@Tesseract_King]

Now I kinda want to design a barebones ttrpg with Hangman mechanics.

[@yonatanbeer3475]

@@zrrion6the6insect6 my mind has been opened

[@borealmarinda4337]

Exactly that. The problem with hangman is that some Game Masters get off on torturing the players, which is when it becomes adversarial and cheating/muddy game rules get encouraged. The GM that likes to give others a good experience will have fun when the word finally clicks with the guesser, especially if it is a rare in-group word or a joke. The reveal of the word is a goal then, and even a fail-state will have some satisfaction for all. The difference is that multiple guessers can compete with each other for score or as a race, which is more common and easier in hangman than in RPGs.

[@Nightwing9597]

I love how you didn’t even mention the fact that when the guesser wins, the executioner is left with either a disembodied head, or an amputated corpse.

[@crispylemonman9695]

Or just an empty gallows if the guesser is both lucky and smart enough.

[@NStripleseven]

...oh

[@carddu]

:0

[@Unravellings]

When I and the guesser wins I erase or scribble out the half hanging man and draw a guy who is very happy because he avoided the noose

[@metra8604]

Profit then lol

[@psigreen3864]

The executioner serves a role, not as a competitor, but as a sort of _game master_ . It's the same idea as a person creating a puzzle for another person to solve. You want to give them a challenge but you also want to see them overcome that challenge. Except for in this case, the puzzle requires another entity to facilitate it, be it a person or computer. It's like the game Mastermind (or Wordle for a more relevant example), where you have to guess the colors or letters in an order, but you need something or someone else to track the puzzle for you since that requires knowing the solution already.

[@danielkorladis7869]

it's like a challenge lock in locksport. Hangman is a puzzle game in disguise as a word guessing game.

[@JacobPDeIiNoNi]

It’s kind of like dungeons and dragons. If the dungeon master really wanted to “win” they could just make something impossible to beat, or come up with something on a whim whenever the party was doing well, just like hangman. But that would be no fun.

[@menoobslayer]

You don't need another person. The solution is literally the paper and pencil, the 'word' MUST be written down BEFORE the round starts by the executioner. It is that easy. The executioner can't change the word if it has already been written down and put aside out of view of the guesser.

[@psigreen3864]

@@menoobslayer you need the other person to tell the guesser if they make correct guesses or not because there'd be no way for them to check without spoiling the solution. But yes, using a piece of paper does help curb the executioner from cheating. The idea, though, is that this isn't the kind of game executioner would benefit from cheating because they *want* the guesser to win, unless the executioner is the type that has fun annoying others. I tend to avoid those people lmao

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I would argue that it is an extremely boring game that is only fun at the intersection of "terminally bored" and "have nothing but paper and a pencil and a friend." Which means that there is an incentive to make the game entertaining for both parties. After all, you are always 6 guesses away from being the new "game master." If they try to eff you with some BS, you either quit or do the same thing back. I would say that one thing he claimed isn't true. Winning as the executioner IS fun. But it's so idiotically easy to cheat that nobody would do it. Unless money is involved, cheating is only fun when it's difficult and adds an element of risk. People wouldn't only think you are a dick for cheating, they might even think of you as just a generally pathetic human being. So playing fairly and still winning makes you feel clever. You created a mini puzzle for yourself-- Given an arbitrary set of personal rules for what words are fair, which word would be difficult to guess?

[@vrycxxlprson1491]

"hangman is a game that everyone has played, but no one knows the rules to" uno:

[@lexlovesblondsz]

[tehe] lmao

[@hufflepuffhorcrux3269]

Uno has caused so many arguments for me. Nobody reads the rules. For dos, you kind of have to

[@paradisesomeday6630]

I-I read the rules.... But I forget oopsie ( ✌︎'ω')✌︎ ♪(´ε｀ )

[@ora2488]

Uno is so confusing Like I'm just playing a normal game of uno, then outta nowhere my opponent throws a 0 (let's say it's blue) and then they put all their blue cards down. I ask where tf they heard that rule from, and they said its common and that's how we play the game. Somebody PLEASE tell me if they ever heard that rule and if yes, if it was ever common. BECAUSE I JUST SAW IT AS A WAY TO CHEAT AND PUT MORE CARDS DOWN LIKE NO SARAH, PUT THOSE CARDS INTO THAT DANG PILE YOU CHEATER!!

[@just_a_silly_little_guy]

@@ora2488 that's definitely cheating oh my god! XDD and I actually have read the rules and actually have a screenshot of the official (Mattel) Uno rules to reference when playing with non family members because seriously, no one plays the same rules (tho "house-rules" do make it more interesting sometimes)

[@chrono4998]

I always thought the "don't be a dick" rule was generally universal

[@mazarinivmikeoxlong-dedica969]

they always start out with "I always thought..."

[@aisha5156]

Mazarin IV I’m kinda confused but it’s still funny.💀

[@tamitami8860]

@@mazarinivmikeoxlong-dedica969 ?

[@viddork]

If only!

[@MrEt894]

If someone uses joyousness I’m slapping the shit out of them.

[@bluemeannie]

We all knew that good guy who put a smilie face, hair, clothes until you got it

[@happybalaga4716]

Ofc i know him. He's me

[@sillygoosetaur]

HappyBalaga you angel

[@vulpes7079]

All my teachers would start with the 5 strokes, then add hair, a piece of headgear, smile, eyes, nose, shoes, and (if the stick figure was supposed to be a girl) one accessory like a hairtie

[@veellia]

that was me

[@lime-ade762]

I did that

[@esinofsardis]

There was a trend in my 5th grade class to use the word "rhombicosidodecahedron" as the hangman word. Unfortunately after two uses, the guessers won before all the blanks were drawn

[@RafaelMunizYT]

geometry, biology and chemistry are the king dictionaries for hangman

[@WarpedWartWars]

spherical pentagonal icosikaitetrahedron

[@m4rcyonstation93]

stella octangula

[@Blackfromstickworld]

*makes the word rhombicosidodecahedrons*

[@cewla3348]

ya like jazz?

[@teclinsoro4523]

in primary school my teacher would draw clothes, hair, and a big smile on the stickman when we weren’t getting the word

[@nej.1190]

A man geting hanged with a big smile in front of primary schoolers...... great teatcher

[@Mecal21]

@@nej.1190 the stickman wasn't getting hanged I'm guessing. I think the commenter meant to say they weren't getting hanged but instead they were on the floor

[@LavroseRovender]

@@collideascopeii lol

[@footlover9416]

@@nej.1190 bro what was he supposed to be crying n screaming tf

[@nej.1190]

@@footlover9416 good piont but i seriously think that it would be better to teach children that getting haged is bad and not good. Or just not play a game where if the childern guess the letters wrong the teacher kills a man.

[@addyy8544]

"To make it extra hard, don't even write down their wrong guesses, force them to remember it by themselves" This man is evil

[@lukaklasic4823]

In my part of my country, we don't mark the letters that are not in the word or the repeating word (our alphabet has 30 letters)

[@justlivinglife1167]

@@lukaklasic4823 oh, you play hangman where your from? Which country? I didn't think it was a very popular or known game outside of only one or two countries 😮

[@lukaklasic4823]

@@justlivinglife1167 I am from Croatia and it is a well know game here, although we call it "Vješala" (translate it from Croatian to English) and we even, sometimes, use full sentences: _ | _ _ | _ _ _ _ | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (Vertical lines represent spaces inbetween words) And for the repeated guesses on the letters, every repeated guess is a new line added to the hangman. If you want to know anything about Croatia, feel free to ask 😁

[@tuperro2402]

@@justlivinglife1167 We here from Mexico play the hanged man too

[@justlivinglife1167]

@@lukaklasic4823 sorry for the late reply, but that sounds really cool😁. I've heard of croatia before but never took the time to learn more. So I guess first off where is it in the world? And how much different is that language from English😮?

[@Garden-sz8jb]

Alternative title: Most efficient way to lose all your friends

[@renookami4651]

Nah, that game ain't mario party

[@ricANNArdo]

This isn't Uno...

[@saulbadman5164]

This is not mario kart

[@Garden-sz8jb]

Yes but this is a strategy to always win at one of the simplest games. That's why technically it's the most efficient

[@jimphaldiahanwashcanzarqui1039]

Or the most efficient way to have your mom disown you

[@EmeraldEmolga]

Years ago, I played this with my granny on a roadtrip and she couldn't guess the word "camera". I ended up giving the hangman hair, shoes, a face, a purse, and I realised I totally skipped over the letters she guessed right because I was so focussed on dressing it up 😅

[@serialvapist5807]

Note to self: Never play hangman with this guy

[@blauwbeer556]

i am surprissed that this man can talk about hangman for 19 minutes straight.

[@serowan]

@@blauwbeer556 ikr

[@cosmicremix311]

*distracts you by going into a 19-minute rant on the game, then proceeds to destroy you when you've forgotten completely what you thought the word was.*

[@randomhobo7754]

666th like

[@LuigixD]

@@blauwbeer556 That's why I clicked on this video

[@670839245]

Hangman *is* a word-guessing game, but under "no-cheating" rules, it's more like a player-vs-dungeon-master rather than player-vs-player game.

[@olgierdvoneverec4135]

I agree, one side functions as the player the other works as a game master, a game masters role is not to win but to create a win/lose condition for the player, thats why we don't hear "I beat that guy at hangman". For this reason, depending on who you're playing with, extra rules or clarifications might be given at the start of the game, and if someone uses an aphostrophe as a letter in one round it will usually be understood as an explicit rule on the next round. Even then it is an odd one out among word guessing games, just like portal is a weird first person shooter and better explained as a puzzle game, hangman is better defined as simply an asymetrical guessing game, because every guess gives you new information and it is posible to form a strategy around this information.

[@Flowtail]

Now that I think about it, i recall that a lot of the time, the executioner would start to make the stick figure really elaborate to give everyone time to think--really supports the 'pvd/e' outlook over 'pvp'

[@felipesharkao]

I agree, but i think it is more like RPGs in a cheating scenario, seeing that the GM will commonly "cheat", but not for him tom win, but to provide more fun to the players

[@MakeVarahHappen]

This is especially true in classroom hangman where the actual competition isn't between the executioner and the guessers but between multiple guessers, each competing for the prize of being the next executioner.

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

Unless you take turns switching who's the guesser and who's the executioner.

[@pythonjava6228]

I've literally never considered how morbid the game is. I just accepted it

[@nuryashifainsyiraah663]

Same.

[@branddransnothing]

It's that game where we all know from young.

[@Koptous]

that actually make us think about the psychology of a human. will he accept killing because everybody deqls with it like it's normal ? humans are weird sometimes

[@branddransnothing]

@@Koptous I think because whenever we think about hangman, (the kind with the trap device and everything) its seen as that person doing a crime, something criminal. So if we instead not use that device and used a tree instead, we'd be sympathetic because the man killed himself.

[@dr.chopper3804]

yeah same

[@SwimmingPanda]

The “there’s a better word than jazz by just changing the vowel” joke is underrated

[@-chenlanying5818]

What does it mean ?

[@dextreme7186]

That word is probably zippers.

[@foonnotspork]

@@dextreme7186 hmm yes.. you very clearly *just* changed the vowel.

[@beanids]

Juzz Never let them know you next move

[@blackmesaresearchcorporati6764]

@@beanids Jozz

[@masonbloomquist2124]

jan Misali: My word is __. what is my word? guesser: guesses the 26 letters of the alphabet jan Misali: FOOL my word was " ' "

[@Noah-qx4kf]

underrated

[@kenjen9861]

NANI!?

[@wildfire9280]

ACKSHULLY there are only 20 letters in the alphabet.

[@davincent98]

@@wildfire9280 I think you forgot U R A Q T

[@Salmon2121_]

Then I pick &, the 27th letter.

[@carykh]

J i'm now the world's best hangman player

[@Kitana___]

Hi cary key hole

[@theawesomepanda1lance241]

*Top 10 most ambitious crossovers*

[@aisha5156]

The AwesomePanda1 Lance 💀

[@_lapys]

F

[@ytivarg5371]

Multiple times i legit did the word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" just to make people hate me.

[@janNowa]

I knew the jazz thing in advance. One time my family was in a restaurant waiting for food and we were all like "let's play hangman". My stepsister pulled out her phone and googled something, then drew 4 dashes on the paper. I was like "is it jazz" and she was totally aghast. Like, maybe don't pick the word that's famous for being the hardest to guess.

[@OrangeC7]

Instead, pick 死ぬ, the Japanese word for death. When they fail to guess, they've died.

[@ammyvl1]

@@OrangeC7 or just use kanji in general. 1997 in 2000 (embracing the 3 line hangman) would be good odds of winning

[@pheonifire]

Though using kanji for letters would be more akin to using, say, the universal symbol of disability or the stop sign. Hiragana is the Japanese alphabet, so using kanji would be like using one of those weird fonts of symbols.

[@OrangeC7]

@@pheonifire I was actually thinking that perhaps Japanese hangman would be guessed based on the radicals? The problem with hiragana and radicals, though, is that there are so many of both that it makes the game much more difficult.

[@mehrheitler]

@@OrangeC7 Radicals are more for Chinese, Japanese is pretty good with kana. 44 letters is not very much. The bigger problem, I think, is that Japanese roots aren’t very long.

[@Jupiter_300]

In the Hungarian language there are multiple duble letter (sz, ty, gy, dz, ly) and one triple letter (dzs). We have to connect these letters line with a curve under neath. If a word contains for exaple the letter , and the guesser guess the and we consider them wrong. The is one of the least common letter (except for the , , and , bc we use them almost nowhere, exept in old surnames) P.S.:Our ABC is 44 letters long...

[@asterrrrr3015]

can we take a moment that this guy basically wrote a several pages long analysis paper and then made a full video with text and drawings for it? like, wow, that's impressive

[@Joachim1010]

and the special thanks?

[@cesarperezargota]

It *is* his job... at least part time.

[@k_tess]

Why use vowels at all? Allow "nth" to introduce itself.

[@littleamig0]

Gonna use this when a teacher gives us a free project (choose your own topic)

[@sirmeowthelibrarycat]

@@littleamig0 🤔 I choose ‘Choose’!

[@epicboxx3838]

“Many children’s games have dark themes, from ring around the Rosie to Fortnite” -Jan misali

[@thepaperempire7954]

Ye

[@vakancy]

He/She/Them is right

[@ayh0210]

It's true

[@ratryox5667]

Legendary Pizzabox Gaming, music, more jan Misali*

[@lgbtqiarights]

fortnite bad minecraft good now sub and like

[@Linus644]

I want to be this kinda person, that takes a random subject and can talk so interestingly about it that keeps me with them for 19 minutes

[@SamuelTrademarked]

That's not an inherited trait, it's a built up trait. Just practice

[@hyperactive4893]

Like trying to meet a word count on an essay

[@Ohmygoodness_oh]

I was literally just thinking about that, me too

[@kedamono8616]

@@SamuelTrademarked acquired*

[@SamuelTrademarked]

@@kedamono8616 Thanks

[@TheMonkeystick]

"You won't be able to convince them that's how hangman works, but the rules are vague enough that you can convince them that you *think* that's how hangman works" Never has someone so succinctly explained trolling/concern trolling before

[@Muho_is_me]

Or uno

[@MeemahSN]

@@Muho_is_me Uno's rules are not unwritten

[@Muho_is_me]

@@MeemahSN but every people i play the rules seem to be different

[@TheRenegade...]

​@@MeemahSNNobody follows the rules though

[@cho4d]

this is actually a textbook example of gaslighting

[@Wombat.]

Isn’t hangman like Monopoly, everyone knows how to play Monopoly yet no one knows how to actually play Monopoly

[@HBMmaster]

at least monopoly _has_ official rules

[@phoebewilson6739]

@Ivar I dissagree.

[@DrRank]

@@HBMmaster And yet, few people actually read them. It took me years to realise you're supposed to auction off a property whose purchase is declined!

[@Tusskie]

@@DrRank I know, I just never have enough people playing to make it worth not skipping

[@suezuccati304]

Ívar just get lucky and buy the last set of terrains in the second street, lol

[@benjaminlee345]

"queue" is a surprisingly fun word to use in hangman. Things go well untill suddenly "da faq is '_ueue'? Is that even a word in english?" And i happily reassure them that it is a word they know.

[@souheki_]

But then you realize u always go after q,, so eh

[@frznbxy]

@@souheki_ A 'q' (debatably) is always followed by a 'u', but a 'u' is not always preceded by a 'q'!

[@punkgreg1388]

@@frznbxy thank you, but you claim it is debatable. Do you know any examples?

[@SynonamessBotchKevin]

@@punkgreg1388 There are quite a lot, almost all of them are foreign words. Qi, Qigong, Faqirs, Niqab, Qibla, etcetera. There are also quite a lot of words that are traditionally written in common english with a K or C that are also written with a Q in some instances.

[@punkgreg1388]

@@SynonamessBotchKevin well I was referring to just English sense it tends to require q be followed by u. Could you give a few examples of just English words?

[@acidchronic2211]

My brain for all eternity: *nothing* KZbin: "Hey you wanna watch why hangman is a weird game?" Me: "You had me at wanna watch"

[@robopuffy]

What even is your profile picture?

[@christiantaylor1495]

Nothing for all eternity

[@solsoil]

*Why Is Your PFP*

[@seafoam6119]

you had me at "KZbin:"

[@1Hawkears1]

I blame the rona

[@xTriton_]

Fhqwgads will always be a real word in our hearts.

[@MarshuTheBurninator]

its also a homestar runner reference

[@WhizzKid2012]

​@@MarshuTheBurninator KyafwonyA

[@conorpyle3295]

I said a come on Fhqwgads

[@beafychicken1169]

​@@MarshuTheBurninatorNEOW

[@omgyeti2049]

Everybody to the limit!

[@sarahni]

"usually in a classroom you would just cross out apples" WHAT, I'VE BEEN KILLING MEN SINCE I WAS 3 YOU TELLING ME THIS JUST NOW

[@yukikanegawa7470]

Yeah I've never seen that

[@somerandomguyontheinternett]

same

[@whateveryouhearditwasntme4109]

My teachers played “hang spider.” It was the same thing except it was a spider hanging from silk. Not only did it make it easier for us dumbass kids to get the word, (more appendages to draw) but it also made it less morbid. We all liked the human kind better though.

[@CodaDoesStuff]

Executioner: Try this "_" Guesser: Can I get a hint? Executioner: It's a letter Guesser:

[@stopreplyingtomycomments7954]

Listen here you little sh-

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

J

[@simplecyan9541]

C

[@HeizouShikanoin]

they are telling the truth

[@gaelforcewind2351]

'?

[@bearmandev]

That moment when the example word was "fhqwhgads" made me die.

[@CesarTheKingVA]

SBEmail for the win.

[@fishactivation5087]

Everybody to the limit. The Cheat is to the limit. Everybody come on Fhqwhgads.

[@xmun]

It doesn't sound like it looks.

[@Grunttamer]

Come on fhqwhgads

[@upielipsonyoutube9272]

Fhqwhgads

[@Planetyyyy]

The fact that "Jizz" is the true hardest word to guess in hangman is very amusing to me

[@TenisJr]

"everyone has played it, but nobody knows the rules" That's just Uno for me. I mean, I know there *are* rules, but every group has their own.

[@brunopereira6789]

Uno is an extremely cultural game. Every family and friend group will have small tweaks to the rules

[@TenisJr]

@@brunopereira6789 That's one of the things I love about it.

[@joseflabajo7739]

Lmao whenever the deck runs out we dont end the round, we put every card on the discard pile except the top card, and then continue(we also dont have points)

[@deadaccount7303]

@@joseflabajo7739 Yeah same!

[@lyzakb5876]

The worst part about the differences is everyone insisting that their set of rules is THE correct one, even though it’s not even close to the set in the rule book. (which, might I add, involves points and is overall a lot more complicated than it needs to be.)

[@relt1554]

I like telling the guesser the subject is Disney characters and picking “Quasimodo”

[@calmwaveofchaos1878]

I always join in on games where they've already gotten to the point of trying to stump each other with hard but legitimate words, so I'll pick french or italian words with a lot of common letters. It's fun to watch peoples' brains break when they can't figure out the last letter or two.

[@whisperingdragon4194]

I’m actually thinking about that musical before reading this.

[@obilim2155]

I watched the movie, live action musical and read the book. If I didn’t get that I’d be so annoyed

[@speccysquaregolike9629]

But it has four of the five vowels, wouldn't people guess that easily?

[@geekjokes8458]

@@speccysquaregolike9629 no one remembers his name

[@wreaxyl_1575]

I'll side with you if you can get people to start singing "apostrophe" as part of the alphabet song

[@kaitthenoscoper]

people used to include ampersand (&) in the alphabet

[@nou6990]

a b c d e f g h i j k lmnop q r s t u v w x y z apostrophe

[@yaboimatt9943]

An apostrophe is punctuation, not a letter

[@philipstuckey4922]

🎵A b c d e f g, h i j k apostrophe, l m n, o p q, r s t, x y z, now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me🎶

[@nayutaito9421]

Let me give it a try. A B C D E F G H I J K LMNOP Q R S T U V W X Y Z ampersand apostrophe semicolon double quotation hyphen question mark exclamation mark colon full stop comma brackets slash Now I know my ABC's Next time won't you sing with me EDIT: Extra blank lines deleted.

[@minirichiPap]

In Portuguese we use til and accents in a lot of words and when we play hangman we tend to include them when the player says the original letter like the word Não (no) if a player says "A" we mark it as à because it wouldn't make sense to play it otherwise. we also have "ç" which is it's own letter but we consider when people says "C"

[@Muho_is_me]

Is "ç" is normaly spelled like when you put a "ch" in a word?

[@oktaviavonseckendorfff]

​@@Muho_is_me no its more like a SSS like SAo

[@BinglesP]

That's really interesting, thank you for sharing!

[@allejandrodavid5222]

No, Ch sounds more like "sh" as in "fashion". Ç sounds like S.​@@Muho_is_me

[@astrodonunt]

In school we played the one where you also draw the gallows (I can't really remember any one with a pre-made gallow, even if it's just adding the rope). And there used to be the odd executioner that'd go as far as drawing fingers until someone finally got it.

[@liamlennox8401]

i always add a top hat, bow tie, cane, shoes, etc until they FINALLY figure it out

[@pigeonsatahotdogstand5912]

Yeah that’s how we played too

[@elafimilo8199]

That's the system my family used. Fingers, toes, hair, facial features... These poor guys got themselves a lot of detail. Including poses, sometimes.

[@SpadesNoir]

Oh hey, I recognize your pfp! I don't speak toki pona but it always sounded interesting.

[@fivetopoint]

*have you all forgotten about the hair and many accessories on the man*

[@elkcibdej]

Strengths is a good one - nine letters, one vowel. Players assume there must be more vowels in it, and so waste turns guessing them.

[@dannykent6190]

Yeah, but it's also almost entirely composed of the most common letters. Not super hard to recover from even if you start with all the vowels.

[@elkcibdej]

@@dannykent6190 True! I guess “strengths” is best suited to variants with a strict guess limit.

[@averagetomfoolery]

bold of you to assume i didnt pick my letters randomly lmao

[@willyames9463]

ya like jazz

[@p3chv0gel22]

Hangman im German is funny, where "Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" (litterally the law, regarding the assignment of the duties for the surveilance of the labeling of beef and yes it's one word in german, that's even Part of the Dictonary) would be a completly fine, valid word with just 79 letters and 26 vowels (if i counted correctly) And yes, i did this once. In school. Was a surprisingly fast game

[@Sef_Era]

My go to word when I’m playing Hangman against people that don’t know any better is “Uncopyrightable”; it’s the longest word in the English language with no repeating letters.

[@neezduts6933]

smart man

[@samuraijackoff5354]

You’re satan himself

[@SwellRhymes]

Satan himself fears you

[@bostoncox8757]

That’s kind of counterproductive because since you used so many unique letters the guesser has over a 50% chance of correctly guessing a letter. You also used all 5 vowels

[@ShadowSkyX]

@@bostoncox8757 jerkish you mean? Given the letters, the chances of losing is higher because you're only filling in one space each time you get a letter correct. People will get hung up by the word trying to figure it out; uncopyrightable would never cross their mind because you usually wouldn't say that under typical circumstances and borders on not sounding like a word.

[@Max-nk9xg]

I've never thought of hangman as competitive or cooperative. In my mind, the executioner was just there to facilitate the game as opposed to actively try and win it. Though I suppose that makes sense, since they do have say over what word is chosen. But the fact hangman isn't fun winning in the role of executioner has always meant people play it to see the guessers' reactions, in my experience; not to actively make them suffer. :D

[@SuperSMT]

True, hangman can often be played as a man vs environment kind of game rather than man vs man. The executioner is not a player, just the arbiter. The guesser's opponent is not another player, but the game itself

[@thatoneguy1426]

this sounds like he's trying to explain earth games to aliens

[@gioveh6]

Who told you he isn’t?

[@Not_blue_000]

Yes, that was very helpful to me.

[@lennygirlthetruesavvysavag2410]

Your tooth brush is in the toaster. You better take it out before the house lights on fire.

[@oumakokichi8214]

@@lennygirlthetruesavvysavag2410 gotcha, eat the toaster

[@LoRosa0224]

Yes.

[@alliell]

My favorite hangman word is “Sphynx” or “Zookeeper”. People almost never guess x or z so I win most of the time

[@syzygyss3823]

Try quasar and pulsar. Also syzygy. They’re all terms for different things or events in space.

[@betterert]

yeah it's really hard to guess a word when it's not spelled correctly

[@alliell]

betterert How did it take me this long to realize I made a typo😂

[@syzygyss3823]

@@alliell oh my gosh I just realized too lmao

[@Sym11037]

I now wish there were more words with X on Spanish.

[@TheGuardDuck]

"from ring-around-the-rosie, to Fortnite." You're not wrong...

[@dillonmarcellus]

@@cillmaster093 then why you upload fortnite videos?

[@dillonmarcellus]

@@cillmaster093 when minecraft was dead your probably said you hated minecraft too

[@fsp3637]

Reddit moment

[@Friddybrid]

Cill it was always shit (or at least I thought it was) but now that that one popular kid came to his senses and declared it stupid then hating fortnite became another freaking trend

[@intent4044]

@@cillmaster093 that was 3 weeks ago. Fortnite became shite when s5 started

[@aski551]

Talk about weird childhood games. In Finland we had "Whose afraid of the black man?" Idea is that there is two lines with 10-15 meters space between. Players go to one line, and the "black man" tries to touch you after saying that rhyme. Players need to hurry to the other line. If you are caught, you join as a black man. Game ends when everyone is the black man. TBH, I never thought of the "black man" as being literal black man, I always thought it was like some shadowmonster or something. Until I grew and figured it out. I think children don't quite understand the racism or morbidness of games, they just like to play.

[@rainshadows17]

We used to calls this "What time is it Mr Wolf"

[@biojate7680]

Nykyään kouluissa ei enään mun mielestä pelata "kuka pelkään mustaa miestä" ymmärrettävästi, mutta "kuka pelkää jää miestä" on korvannut sen. Joka on omasta mielestä paljon parempi nykyiseen koulumaailmaan

[@aski551]

@@biojate7680 Onhan se tottakai parempi. Tarkoitin vain etten kyllä pienenä miettinyt että se on "musta mies".

[@biojate7680]

@@aski551 Juu en mäkään lapsena tajunnut xd

[@ilkkamiinalainen7116]

​@@biojate7680Omassa koulussani pelattiin "kuka pelkää mustekalaa"

[@afonsodias871]

The weirdest part is that it hasn't lauched any updates since its release

[@volcanhacks]

That's because it's still in beta testing

[@NotCapy]

it already dropped, but the optimal version for the speedrun is 1.0 so we use that instead of 1.3

[@NoodleProductions]

It actually has semi frequent updates, but they’re just patches to add new words.

[@Gwydda]

It's because they will get to it once the Elder Scrolls VI is out.

[@minhtran7431]

I heard that the developer tried to make it more realistic but we’ve never heard of them since then.

[@SheetMusicBoss]

Brb about to win some hangman

[@palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046]

1. You watch jan Misali? 2. Kay, are you back?

[@jakerussell135]

wasnt expecting to see you here

[@masterspark9880]

Do Hurrian Hymn 6

[@enzo3217]

Now make hangman a song

[@NeDaz]

henlo

[@koolkdny]

when you make your hangman sentence ‘the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’

[@kennyholmes5196]

That's an automatic win for the Guesser.

[@reversev9778]

@Kenny Holmes, dangit, no wonder I’ve been loosing so much

[@user-pi7sj4wm8p]

WHERE'S DAT OXFORD COMMA, BRUH?

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@user-pi7sj4wm8p Bruh. Oxford commas are for lists, not general usage.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Anthony Kubasek That sentence doesn’t need any commas at all

[@Hug1806]

My teacher called it “hang-spider” and made us draw a spider instead of a man. I honestly never would’ve thought abt the fact that we were drawing a live execution if she hadn’t brought attention to it though

[@fredericksmith7942]

Remington?

[@asmozinho]

The way he says 'fhqwhgads' with such a neutral and serious tone got me choking jdhdgshsgdggd

[@sy-py]

It is actually a homestar runner reference

[@asmozinho]

@@mennaalragaby8498 I also end up in the random side of KZbin

[@asmozinho]

@@Duckyletsplay it could be you ;)

[@asmozinho]

@@Duckyletsplay fair I mean, if everyone liked me the best, I would be very overwhelmed

[@yanfangshen4356]

Fu qu he gads

[@CyberneticArgumentCreator]

I don't think the reason the executioner avoids cheating in most cases is due to the fun level of winning. It's clearly a social pact where there's an unspoken agreement that you are playing in good faith. Even kids understand quickly that if you cheat, no one wants to play games with you.

[@mayoactual2065]

Looks like hackers in video games didn’t pick that up in school

[@OtepRalloma]

@@mayoactual2065 that's bc in games without anti cheat, hackers aren't punished, a kid will run out of friends to play hangman with, but hackers have the entire internet world to mess with

[@f1shyspace]

Haha tell that to my siblings

[@zepharephic5381]

No one wants to play Hangman with me? Sounds good to me. If anyone ever asks to play hangman, I'll say yes then do all the cheats. My favorite is the random letters and the letting them go 5 turns without actually picking a word

[@turbuuu]

@@zepharephic5381 just say no it isnt that hard.

[@clap_lmao]

never lost with “zephyr”

[@SStarry_Days]

I used this word and I had to keep adding things till they got it so we had went through most of the alphabet and it was hilarious.

[@hyrulehero2773]

I guarantee your first loss will be to a Spyro fan

[@StardustLegend]

@@hyrulehero2773 or someone who plays warframe

[@illford]

@@SStarry_Days the gam ends when you fail enough times so how the hell did you go through the whole alphabet of remaining letters

[@SStarry_Days]

@@illford cus we just cept going till someone got it.

[@Kiannka]

During the last week of senior year we played hangman. At first it was all fun with simple words, usually references to inside jokes and topics in class. Then our teacher picked "axt" (german for axe) and NOBODY guessed it. It was a massive defeat. After that nobody played fair anymore, it was all about how much you could destroy peoples will to live. I love the chaos that hangman can cause in a group of people. So simple yet so beautiful.

[@jph4852]

One big point: Make sure the executioner had spelled the word correctly.

[@dylankrejci9965]

also, make sure they don't forget there are multiple cases of a letter in a word. idk how many times I played with my younger brother and lost, only to find out he only marked 1 case of each letter, even if there were multiple versions of it

[@jejtherusheddoodle23]

Also also, make sure the executioner knows what they’re doing. I have this cousin who play hangman and never tells me where the other repeating letters are.

[@PowerStar004]

Someone once tried to use "Antidisestablishmentarianism" on the belief that no one would ever guess such a long word. I managed to guess the word without needing a single letter because there are no other 28 letter words in the English language. Honestly, it was more impressive that they knew how to spell it then my being able to guess it.

[@manicpixiecassidy]

Yep. I did that in primary school, except that I won because nobody knew that word. I mostly just enjoyed the thrill of people getting more and more incredulous as I kept adding little dashes.

[@adrianpaul1985]

r/iamverysmart

[@moistedits4455]

@@adrianpaul1985 He’s not just smart, his classmates were stupid

[@fecalmatter442]

@@moistedits4455 I had never heard of that word until earlier today, and I’m 20 years old. I must be fucking retarded

[@pat3690]

@@fecalmatter442 ahhhhhh, yeah....... I don’t think I know a single person who doesn’t know that word. It was a pretty big meme when I was like 10

[@montemonte1966]

0:10 "I've been thinking about hangman a lot recently" are you okay man? Do you need to talk to someone?

[@katarinawalko2801]

I wanna like but I’m just gonna leave it at the number it is 😂

[@twi1875]

okay who ruined it?

[@aisha5156]

The Twilight Phoenix “Who broke it? We’re not mad, we just wanna know.”

[@syoski6450]

ᗪEEᖇ Ḁͦi̥ͦs̥ͦh̥ͦḁͦ not mad, just disappointed.

[@synthetic_creature]

I'm going to hangman myself

[@ODISeth]

12:45 is such a funny fucking screenshot like this just screams the tumblr/homestuck era humor that flows so strongly through this channel and I love it

[@insomnolent5539]

"Pencil and paper games take only a few seconds to learn" This video: *20 minute explanation of hangman*

[@transbiologistthetransesto7956]

Only takes a few seconds to learn, but 20 minutes to explain the small nuances in depth.

[@Snaps12345]

Its more of an analysis

[@gab2171]

in the mental hospital we weren’t allowed to talk abt hanging (for obvious reasons) and we called it butterfly man 💀

[@subwaytacoman]

Bro?

[@rainer8137]

You good fam?

[@achoo3001]

lmaoo

[@kaeyasasscheeks1832]

plS

[@Mreoewwmrow]

lmfao

[@jhouvic]

In elementary school, if we weren’t even close to finding the word, our teacher would give us more ‘chances’ by also burning the stick man. As in: ‘I lit a match’, ‘I placed the logs’, ‘I lit the fire’ and then crossing out the eyes. I never found it weird, but I guess it was.

[@bethanykoch8415]

My teachers gave the man clothes and accessories.

[@herobrine1847]

My teachers used apples :(

[@lucasfranke5161]

My teachers would add more parts to the stickman. Instead of just the limbs, head and torso, they would also draw hands, feet, eyes, etc

[@naughtymonkey1563]

My teachers just let the dude die.

[@almeidajonathan42]

How cute Christian teachers are!

[@sirflaps7619]

15:20 you clearly have never heard of ultimate tic-tac-toe. - Draw a field of 3x3 tic-tac-toe fields for 9 tic tac toe fields in total - Player 1 starts and can plane his symbol in any of the 9 fields. - Player 2 has to play in the field equal to the place where player 1 has placed his symbol. For example player one places his symbol on the right middle field (big field) in the top middle square (with ing the big field), player 2 has to them place his symbol anywhere on the top middle field. Rinse and repeat. - If you force your opponent to play in a field where someone has already won they get to place their symbol anywhere. -The game is won when one player has won 3 fields next to each other, just like in normal tic-tac-toe.

[@brunnomenxa]

I've done a 4x4 tic-tac-toe and then a 10x10 tic-tac-toe game. I've never played with anyone, but I don't think it's possible to win the conventional way, so there are other rules that make the game more interesting.

[@olivetree3]

I love this version.

[@zenith4919]

*"the teacher takes the role of the executioner"*

[@RyanTosh]

Comment is stolen. Can confirm, I wrote the original.

[@zenith4919]

@@RyanTosh didn't see the comment you're talking about, but i dont think that im the first to think of it. i just laughed at that part of the vid and wanted to share what i thought of the video calm down. i only got a few likes on a comment its not that big of a deal anyway jeez.

[@RyanTosh]

@@zenith4919 Hard not to see, but I guess I get it. Sorry.

[@zenith4919]

@@RyanTosh its ok dude, it's just a comment idc lmao

[@blenderrender793]

That's the English teachers revenge for school shootings in an educational form.

[@slippinsydney]

“There’s another word to replace with jazz, but replace the a with another vowel” Me: oh no

[@jacksone8282]

I was wondering when I'd find a comment like this.

[@jonthehuman7417]

I burst out laughing when I put it together

[@tanaka6691]

Jonathan Aresse me too, me too...

[@m.c.schock2933]

Jozz?

[@amuricuh6143]

Jvzz?

[@bewu._.]

If you use "queue", when someone guesses the letter "q", they put the q down, but when someone guesses the word "queue", you can say that they already guessed it lol

[@gobleturky6192]

Works with stuff like “see” and “why” as well

[@randomclownguy6]

@@gobleturky6192 It doesn't always work with "why" since not everyone pronounces Y the same as "why". Most people do though.

[@lhaviland8602]

@@randomclownguy6 Hwil Hweaton.

[@rum-ham]

😂

[@assasinsuperspygurl4426]

@@randomclownguy6 😄 theres a reason why see and why cant be guessed

[@scibanana3542]

Fun fact: It is completely possible to play connect four on paper if you use x and o rather than red and yellow disks.

[@abugidaiguess]

i mean yeah connect 4 is basically bigger tic-tac-toe with gravity

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

Same with battleship, you just need a grid

[@MaxLai_0104]

fun fact: you can watch youtube without a computer, just tell them to send you every frame on paper and flip them like a flipbook

[@SuperHGB]

​@@MaxLai_0104but what about the audio

[@MaxLai_0104]

@@SuperHGB tell them to send you a soundboard

[@briech907]

“After all, there’s another word that’s exactly the same as “jazz” except that the “A” is replaced with a less common vowel” That’s cursed :/

[@unknownmember8807]

Lmaooo im glad someone got that

[@luasiaimas3566]

*I* wonder what letter that would be...

[@rycl0ps65]

i

[@quoshtard1510]

what is itttt i jut dont get it

[@martialaw566]

jyzz

[@ldelgg]

Imagine hangman in chinese, where there are 2000 individual characters whose meaning is specific to words

[@o4_]

On top of that, most words in Chinese (not including compound terms) aren't even longer than 3 characters.

[@KatinkaMaika]

Inevitable death

[@Eyeofthetiger4072]

They’d be drawing individual blades of grass on the ground

[@TerribleUsernameAmirite]

They could use pinyin if so inclined haha

[@KatinkaMaika]

@@Eyeofthetiger4072 LOL

[@twinleaf4475]

I like how you used the word “executioner” because not only are they preforming the task, they are executing a man.

[@makaylaggg]

That’s the point…

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

@@makaylaggg yeah lol

[@isaowater]

@@makaylaggg That’s the joint...

[@michaelsamir3611]

Congratulations you understood the very easy to understand the joke you may now applaud

[@ophello]

That’s PERforming. Not PRE.

[@gigi-riley]

when i was in outpatient for anxiety management, we did one called “build a house”. that’s when I personally realized how strange hangman was. Great video!

[@spriterkid1997]

"After all, there's another word that's exactly the same as jazz except that the 'a' is replaced with a less common vowel." Oh man, I am so juzzed.

[@xdragoonzero0]

The joke was so good I jozzed my pants.

[@mistabutd1101]

I went searching for this comment and the first reply was even better

[@sai-bi2rh]

this comment gave jizzes!

[@Brooke-rw8rc]

For those wondering, it's "jwzz".

[@Jivvi]

Jezz

[@allenhiu8205]

"don't play Hangman with Joe, he makes you guess punctuation."

[@Cessated]

Ok I'll play it with robert

[@Cessated]

@Alexnader Hamiltun ok cool

[@Julio-it1pl]

Who's Joe?

[@Cessated]

@@Julio-it1pl joe family guy

[@Kamirasu]

@@Julio-it1pl joe biden

[@raidedsalt7110]

I love how he just says "VHQWHGADS" perfectly

[@BitterJoyXx]

Kiptops time stamp?

[@TheNerdyChive]

Serella & BitterJoy 2:18

[@toasty9307]

FHQWHGADS*

[@toasty9307]

No offense

[@ognok6698]

i said come on fhqwhgads

[@TotalnaMalpa]

this is actually one of the greatest videos on youtube, great work

[@aetherllama8398]

The best word is OAT. Sure, they guess the A and T, but there are over 20 3-letter words ending in AT. It's unintuitive to guess a vowel, so you have time to make a detailed hangman. Then reveal the simple word and leave them completely demoralized.

[@eveakane6563]

I always start with vowels though.

[@djneonreaper4990]

@@eveakane6563 who doeent start with vowels right?

[@davinchristino]

@@djneonreaper4990 Though you generally don't guess O at the start

[@djneonreaper4990]

@@davinchristino why not? It is still worth saying especially if it's a longer word where E is more probable

[@Jortim]

@@eveakane6563 would you continue guessing vowels if its a 3 letter word and you already have the a in the middle?

[@gerardovillicana7583]

"Jynx" could be a hard word to guess.

[@karelspinka3031]

Also Zzyzx, fjord and jazz.

[@TurkeyMeat]

@@karelspinka3031 syzygy

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

Karel Špinka zzyzx isn’t actually a word though.... right?

[@dreska255]

@@AverageEggmonEnthusiast whoops, I thought it said "xyzzy." But still, Zzyzx is a proper noun, and depending on what rules you're using it may count or not.

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

dreska thats funky I don’t know how I feel about that

[@Spinner891]

"Sorry, the word was fhqwhgads." "Come on, Fhqwhgads?!"

[@HaunaMyKiki]

Everybody to the limit!

[@colonelgraff9198]

Everybody to the limit!

[@metra8604]

Everybody to the limit!

[@gaz9411]

Everybody come on Fhqwhgads!

[@BryanLee]

I asked my friend Joe and asked my friend Jake. They said it was fhqwhgads.

[@jjjm7322]

I always played where the executioner would have to write their word down on a hidden piece of paper at the start, to prevent them swapping it mid-game. I’m pretty sure this called way more attention to that way of cheating really

[@midastheunwise2423]

So hangman's executioner being adversarial is more akin to being a DM in D&D games. You act as the enemy, but really you want the other players to ultimately win. The goal isn't to win, but to provide just enough challenge so that your players need to play well in order to succeed, and as such feel a greater sense of accomplishment for doing so.

[@clueless_cutie]

This is a perfect parallel! But the distance between a pen and paper hangman game and a full blown D&D campaign is very vast. Then again, I guess that's what makes hangman so interestingly weird/unique. It's exactly what makes D&D so unique. This also means that a friend group could play a few sessions of hangman to determine who would most likely function best as the DM among them!

[@cheeseboi8769]

Eh

[@arcanealchemist3190]

I always played it with the winner becoming the next executioner. you chose difficult words because you wanted the next executioner to present you with a challenge. which has a parallel with DnD, where it isn't uncommon for groups to take turns DMing. DMing is a lot of work, and while it is fun, playing DnD is objectively a better ratio of fun to work. the same is true of hangman. You may find choosing the word fun, and even take sadistic pleasure in watching your friend struggle to guess it, but the algorithmic tasks you have to take to communicate the right and wrong guesses aren't interesting. so yeah, all that to say its a really good comparison. both games have very similar social characteristics, I think.

[@adfinder5791]

@@cheeseboi8769 wow the contrast between your reply (in terms of size), and the replies around you is funny.

[@rtlong1999]

A

[@gameboy-nq7je]

playing it in german is allways funny, because most times its agreed on that ä,ö and ü are spelled as ae, oe, ue and ß as either ss or sz, so words that usually look like this äußere, become aeuszere, basically they look completely different and get really hard to guess

[@Benutzername474]

I think it just becomes aeussere not aeuszere

[@gameboy-nq7je]

@@Benutzername474 i know the version where you replace ß with sz instead of ss to avoid confusion, because there are so many words who already have ss in them, that's why I mentioned that there are two versions

[@menacingjack]

That's pretty genius

[@eduardoledesma5568]

Why can't you just use the original letter?

[@gameboy-nq7je]

@@eduardoledesma5568 to avoid the debate whether an ä also has to be written down when someone guesses a for example

[@Arzamol5]

This makes me think of Hangman as being a bit like D&D. The executioner is like a Dungeon Master, they aren't trying to beat the guesser, only trying to give them a fun challenge.

[@gustavocortico1681]

That analogy was perfect

[@김치즈-i7g]

It's also pen and paper

[@Skooberee]

By hanging a man

[@frazierclarke6262]

Was about to comment the same thing. The quote at the end "nobody knows exactly what the rules are" and "one player has nothing preventing them from cheating, something which they will only take advantage of to prevent themselves from winning" stuck out to me especially

[@julien4305]

_Wait so is my group's dm just an absolute dick?_

[@hansijawns]

One problem with your guesser strategy: It gets completely demolished by certain executioner strategies. For example, if the executioner figures out your strategy, they can just pick words that deliberately counter it, and you will always lose. To make a truly "perfect strategy" from a game theory perspective, you would need to introduce an element of randomness to your guesses.

[@tob2525]

Someone once said on the internet, "Hangman teaches us a valuable lesson. Saying the wrong thing can harm someone."

[@frankdayton731]

Hangman was the first woke game. How progressive for its time!

[@ynraider]

@@frankdayton731 Jim Crow Era child's game...

[@yukierblx]

I already knew that hangman is actually a man did suicide

[@teneale1016]

@@frankdayton731 googled the meaning behind it, three-or-so sources state that "It originated in England during the 17th century and was played when a prisoner facing death demanded the “Rite of Words and Rites”. I guess its progressive?

[@michaellyga4726]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[@cheeseitup1971]

"everyone has played it, but nobody knows the rules" I'd argue this is true for basically any oral tradition game. There's a million little variants you could add to each, some of which become core to different groups of people. Even with Tag, "no tagbacks" was the default way I played it, with potential qualifiers like "for 10 seconds". Does pure Tag have tagbacks? Does that rely on the release of contact, or can tagging only happen with the hands? I could not be sure that I have the same rules as another person without asking.

[@rancidprince3133]

Tag is really interesting with all the variants kids come up with. You can take freeze tag and turn it into pose tag or turn it into toilet tag. There’s zombie tag and secret tag and gravel and zoobreak (which are basically tag) I guess that sort of game just evolves however you want

[@abramthiessen8749]

At school, we had "no tagbacks" for any length of time, but at karate, before things started, skilled tagbacking was the cornerstone of the game. With occasionally tense standoffs of tagging someone an even number of times and dashing away because you expected them to tag you back an odd number of times.

[@felipesharkao]

That's true. It's happening with a popular card game (at least in my country): Uno. Everybody have played it, but every one has different rules to it

[@lilemont9302]

It is because variety is in the nature of games; there are many different rulesets for what goes by one name, but is actually a collection of closely related games. Almost all games are folk games or become folk games.

[@EricZucchini]

Even UNO can have different rules depending on who's playing. Nobody really reads that rule sheet. Sometimes people get rid of a rule they don't like too.

[@aestellic]

why does this feel like an over-analyzed subject for a school video essay and why do i love it

[@Goose____]

hangman sounds like a great beginner friendly programing project instead of the usual tic-tac-toe

[@EepyTransGal]

Technically, "&" was a letter at some point. Some people don't even know it's real name, so wouldn't & be the hardest word to guess?

[@soren4818]

That’s called an ampersand. Didn’t even have to look that up. I feel proud of myself.

[@EepyTransGal]

@@soren4818 honestly, I didn't even know what it was called. Thanks!

[@bandname]

As of the modern era, it falls under punctuation though under a different category.

[@jeremiahcunkle5938]

Ampersand. And, per se, and Language is weird.

[@casono]

@@jeremiahcunkle5938 Kansas Arkansas

[@johncameron1935]

In all my years of playing hangman, I never once thought to change the word in the middle of the match just to say the opponent has lost. What an incredibly devious play.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Change spelling during a game :D

[@tairneanaich]

People did this all the time in school and it was a horrendous crime- also it‘s difficult to do, as the changed word still has to fit what you‘ve already admitted

[@BigFatCock0]

That's because you're a normal human being. Only psychos think up shit like that.

[@Dalinos]

In my school that was commonplace. I still remember my favourite switch-triplet: Slave, Slate, Slake. Same 5-letter word, with 1 consonant difference. Kettle, Settle, Mettle was also a backup plan. Some classmates saw right through it - others never realised a thing. Revealed it to my 6th grade teacher when I left Junior school to go to Middle school - he just laughed :P

[@chrisrib05]

You (and me) are too good, i mean not evil

[@quietsamurai1998]

Guesser: ' isn't a letter! Executioner: *isnt lol Outstanding move!

[@ganondorfchampin]

It’s easy to make hangman an asymmetric competitive game. Just standardize the number of turns, settle on dictionary of words to use, and have the executioner write down the word and hide it ahead of time. That’s the scenario I want to look it, mathematically it most have some sort of equilibrium strategy. It’s interesting to think about because the optimal strategy for the executioner is NOT to choose the hardest word because then the guesser would know to just guess that word, some sort of randomization would be involved but it’s not clear how.

[@loganclancy7147]

my catholic school had a ban on hangman for being "too morbid" while there was a crucifix in every room

[@goodboi6329]

The irony

[@julil3021]

Mine never censored it cause “I mean there’s already a crucifix in the room”. I love when the same structure leads to different conclusions lol

[@jscott1622]

At my Church before Sunday school we would always play hangman with the gallows and everything.

[@HMN134]

Ah yes, more evidence that religious people are complete idiots.

[@DefinitelyNotShane]

@@HMN134 Ooga Booga

In my class, we kept using the word "Otorhinolaryngology" all the time and thought we were clever even though it was literally the only word of that length that any of us knew, and obviously guessed in the first round.

[@lotusflower2062]

lol what does that word even mean

@@lotusflower2062 it’s a medical specialty for nose, throat and ear problems ;)

[@Tara-cu6ff]

Omg sameeee we used otolingolaringorog all the time

[@tendrilitis]

Gonna use pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis for my next hangman game

[@itz_daniel7144]

@@tendrilitis I’ll use Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

[@itssheep685]

How to always win as executioner: use the name of a German town

[@AnnoyingAsianWitch]

Or a Welsh one?

[@ellie8983]

Doesn't work when the players are German though

[@channelnamehere-2486]

Or use Japanese. People won’t guess symbols

[@jacen884]

Ah yes "Rothenburg ob der Tauber" and "Lübeck".

[@solidzack]

Or a town from wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

[@HauMun_1lovetacos]

Someone said Hangman teaches us a lesson "if you say the wrong thing the man is hanged, it is the same way with real life, if you say the wrong thing to someone, they carry it, some hang themselves, others cut, some even overdose" or smth like that... idk it was on Reddit