Hangman Game in Python

The origins of Hangman are obscure meaning not discovered, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times, ” says Tony Augarde, author of The Oxford Guide to Word Games. 

This is a simple Hangman game using Python programming language. Beginners can use this as a small project to boost their programming skills and understanding logic.

1. The Hangman program randomly selects a secret word from a list of secret words. The random module will provide this ability, so line 1 in program imports it.
2. The Game: Here, a random word (a fruit name) is picked up from our collection and the player gets limited chances to win the game.
3. When a letter in that word is guessed correctly, that letter position in the word is made visible. In this way, all letters of the word are to be guessed before all the chances are over.
4. For convenience, we have given length of word + 2 chances. For example, word to be guessed is mango, then user gets 5 + 2 = 7 chances, as mango is a five letter word.

# Python Program to illustrate 

# Hangman Game 

import random 

from collections import Counter 

someWords = '''apple banana mango strawberry 

orange grape pineapple apricot lemon coconut watermelon 

cherry papaya berry peach lychee muskmelon'''

someWords = someWords.split(' ') 

# randomly choose a secret word from our "someWords" LIST. 

word = random.choice(someWords)  

if __name__ == '__main__': 

print('Guess the word! HINT: word is a name of a fruit') 

for i in word: 

# For printing the empty spaces for letters of the word 

print('_', end = ' ')  

print() 

playing = True

# list for storing the letters guessed by the player 

letterGuessed = ''  

chances = len(word) + 2

correct = 0

flag = 0

try: 

while (chances != 0) and flag == 0: #flag is updated when the word is correctly guessed 

print() 

chances -= 1

try: 

guess = str(input('Enter a letter to guess: ')) 

except: 

print('Enter only a letter!') 

continue

# Validation of the guess 

if not guess.isalpha(): 

print('Enter only a LETTER') 

continue

elif len(guess) > 1: 

print('Enter only a SINGLE letter') 

continue

elif guess in letterGuessed: 

print('You have already guessed that letter') 

continue

# If letter is guessed correctly 

if guess in word: 

k = word.count(guess) #k stores the number of times the guessed letter occurs in the word 

for _ in range(k):  

letterGuessed += guess # The guess letter is added as many times as it occurs 

# Print the word 

for char in word: 

if char in letterGuessed and (Counter(letterGuessed) != Counter(word)): 

print(char, end = ' ') 

correct += 1

# If user has guessed all the letters 

elif (Counter(letterGuessed) == Counter(word)): # Once the correct word is guessed fully, 

# the game ends, even if chances remain 

print("The word is: ", end=' ') 

print(word) 

flag = 1

print('Congratulations, You won!') 

break # To break out of the for loop 

break # To break out of the while loop 

else: 

print('_', end = ' ') 

# If user has used all of his chances 

if chances <= 0 and (Counter(letterGuessed) != Counter(word)): 

print() 

print('You lost! Try again..') 

print('The word was {}'.format(word)) 

except KeyboardInterrupt: 

print() 

print('Bye! Try again.') 

exit()