Create Your Own Hangman With Python
How about hangman with Python?
The famous hangman game… No matter what language you speak, I’m sure you’ve played this game. One of the most known games in the world. So, are you ready to design this game yourself using Python?
You know the first sentence of all programmers in programming: Hello world. Just like hello world, many people learning a new programming language are also familiar with the hangman.
Creating a coin flip, hangman with python, which can even be asked in job interviews, can inform people about your level.
Since the game is a word game, you can choose the language you want to create. But as someone who has researched many language packs, I can say that the largest word list is in English, as you can imagine.
If you want to create a game in a language other than English, you can search the GitHub repositories. Today we are going to create a hangman game in the English language.
1- Finding a source for a word list
To create the game, you first need to find a large source of English words list. You don’t need to go far. I’ve included the source here for you.
Since we will create the game using google colab, we need to download the word list to our computer. So on the page that opens, in order:
- right-click
- save as
- set destination for upload
- click save.
Next, we upload the downloaded file to colab as I explained in my previous articles.
2- Writing codes to create hangman
The next step is pretty simple. You can create your own hangman game by using the code I created in a simple way below. It’s up to you whether or not to make changes to the code.
import random
# Let's create our code by explaining step by step. Read the code comments.
# Load the words file to your colab and then:
with open("words_alpha.txt") as f:
words = [word.strip() for word in f.readlines()]
# create a function of the random library we downloaded using the random select function
def get_word():
return random.choice(words)
# define a function related to the progress of the game
def show_state(word, guesses, wrong_guesses):
# show the word with underscores for unguessed letters
display_word = ""
for letter in word:
if letter in guesses:
display_word += letter
else:
display_word += "_"
print(display_word)
# show the wrong guesses
if len(wrong_guesses) > 0:
print("Wrong guesses: {}".format(" ".join(wrong_guesses)))
# draw the hanged man
print("")
if len(wrong_guesses) >= 1:
print(" 0 ")
if len(wrong_guesses) == 2:
print(" | ")
elif len(wrong_guesses) == 3:
print(" \| ")
elif len(wrong_guesses) >= 4:
print(" \|/ ")
if len(wrong_guesses) == 5:
print(" / ")
elif len(wrong_guesses) >= 6:
print(" / \ ")
# Create a function to play the game
def play():
word = get_word()
guesses = set()
wrong_guesses = []
max_wrong_guesses = 7
while True:
# Show the game
show_state(word, guesses, wrong_guesses)
# Get the player's guess
guess = input("Write a letter: ").lower()
# Check if the guess is a letter
if len(guess) != 1 or not guess.isalpha():
print("Invalid! Please write just letter.")
continue
# Look if the letter has already been guessed
if guess in guesses:
print("Are you serious? Don't you remember you already guessed that letter.")
continue
# Add the guess to guesses
guesses.add(guess)
# Look if the guess is correct
if guess in word:
if set(word) == guesses:
show_state(word, guesses, wrong_guesses)
print("Finally, you win!")
return
else:
wrong_guesses.append(guess)
if len(wrong_guesses) == 4:
print("You passed half of the way!")
elif len(wrong_guesses) == 7:
show_state(word, guesses, wrong_guesses)
print("Last chance, use it carefully!")
if len(wrong_guesses) >= max_wrong_guesses:
show_state(word, guesses, wrong_guesses)
print("You have no idea about this game, do you? The word was '{}'.".format(word))
return
# Play the game
play()You can think of these codes as just an outline. If you wish, you can change the number of guesses, the order of drawings, and the messages given by the computer.
You could even try using the pygame library to color the images. All you have to do is read the explanations carefully and follow the steps.
Conclusion
Do you know that the hangman game we created in a simple format above is asked as a question in some job interviews? A game that has always been popular with programmers.
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