NAME

hangman, words − word games

SYNOPSIS

/usr/games/hangman [ dict ]

/usr/games/words

DESCRIPTION

Hangman chooses a word at least seven letters long from a word list.  The user is to guess letters one at a time. 

The optional argument names an alternate word list.  The special name ‘−a’ gets a particular very large word list. 

Words prints all the uncapitalized words in the word list that can be made from letters in string. 

FILES

/usr/dict/wordsthe regular word list
/crp/dict/web2the the −a word list

DIAGNOSTICS

After each round, hangman reports the average number of guesses per round and the number of rounds. 

BUGS

Hyphenated compounds are run together. 

UNIX software is distributed without the −a word list. 

7th Edition