hang man

Description:

Hangman is a popular children's word game, where the life of a factious person is resting upon your ability to correctly guess the letters in a hidden word. With each incorrect guess, the person inches one step closer to death. This walk towards death is represented by a graphic being incrementally drawn of the person body. When the entire body displayed, the person dies.

Your job is to write a program that allows a user to play the game. Instead of using real graphics, we will be drawing an ASCII representation of a person.

Requirements:

• The database of possible words must be read from a file.
• Once the database has been loaded a random word will be selected and the game will begin
• The game must prompt the user to select characters, with each incorrect guess, draw an additional part of the body to the screen

The output may look similar to this:

• The program must display a list of characters that have been chosen already
• The program must display the number chances the player has remaining

Concepts:

• Inheritance
• Classes
• Object-oriented design
• Algorithms
• Linked List
• File Input/Output

Updated: August 28, 2005 02:24 PM