NAME

hangman − guess the word

SYNOPSIS

/usr/games/hangman [ arg ]

DESCRIPTION

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

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

FILES

/usr/dict/wordsthe regular dictionary
/usr/dict/web2the alternate dictionary

BUGS

Hyphenated compounds are run together. 

7th Edition