Play Hangman on the Big Screen
Hangman is the word game everyone knows. Read the clue, call out letters and solve the word before your ten chances run out. You can play as one group or in teams, right on your TV.
Start a Game
- Open any activity that has words and clues
- Click Play, then Hangman
- Choose your picture: Chalkboard, Snowman or Spaceman, or Mix them up for a different one each word
- Choose None to play as one group, or 2, 3 or 4 teams and give them names
- Click Let's play!
The Chalkboard draws the classic gallows, one chalk line at a time. If you'd like something softer, choose Daisy under the pictures and a daisy loses a petal instead.
How to Play
Read the clue. The blanks show how many letters are in the word.
Call out a letter. Click it on the screen or type it on your keyboard. A right letter fills in every place it appears and turns green. A wrong letter costs one chance and gets a small cross in its corner, so everyone can still read which letters have been tried.
Watch the picture. Every wrong letter changes the picture a little. The number under the word always shows how many chances are left. You have ten for each word.
Somebody knows the word? When they shout it out, click the green solved it button under the letters. The rest of the word fills in and you can go on to the next one.
If the chances run out, the whole word is shown and you move on. Nobody ever loses points.
Playing in Teams
Teams take turns to call out a letter. A right letter wins a point for every place it fills, and that team goes again. A wrong letter passes the turn to the next team.
The green button shows the name of the team whose turn it is, like Lions solved it Solving wins a point for every letter still hidden, plus 3 bonus points. If a team shouts out the wrong word, click Not quite, next team. It passes the turn and doesn't cost a chance.
The ten chances are shared by the whole room, so everyone is working on the same picture.
If you'd rather play as one group, choose one team. There are no turns, and the screen counts the words you solve together.
Handy for Hosts
If the room is stuck on a word, Show answer reveals it so you can move on. Nobody scores for that word.
Between words, Change picture swaps to another picture without losing your scores.
If you're running out of time, Finish the game takes you straight to the scores.
On a keyboard, type letters to call them and press the space bar for the next word.
If you close the page by accident, open the game again and choose Carry on to pick up where you left off.
Sound is on to start. You can turn it off with the speaker button at the top.
Hangman only uses answers that make a fair word to guess. True or false answers, whole sentences and answers with numbers are left out, and a quiz made mostly of those won't open as Hangman. Try one of the other games instead.
For tips on getting games onto your TV, see Playing Games and Videos on Your TV.
Have fun! x
