Hangman is one of many popular guessing word games falling in the category of indoor party games and is played with a paper and pencil along (though the computer versions are also available) by two or more players taking part in the game.

One of the players thinks of a word in her/his mind. The rest of the players are supposed to guess the same letter by letter, one letter at a time.

The one, who has decided the word, counts the letter in it and draws as many dashes on a piece of paper, each dash representing the letters of the word in order.

The guessing player/s guess a letter trying to fix 12 most commonly occurring letters e-t-a-o-i-n-s-h-r-d-l-u first, whereas the leader tries to think of words that use them the least. If the letter guessed happens to be in the word, the leader fills the same wherever it should fit in the word replacing its dash/es. But if it doesn't, the leader draws one element of the hangman-diagram known as a 'tally mark' in the game, denoting hanging the guessing players element by element.

If all the dashes are replaced by letters before all the elements of the diagram are drawn, the guessing player/s win/s the game. If not, they lose it to the player who had initially thought the word.

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