WinHangManHelp
Help for Win HangMan

Win HangMan is a Windows version of the popular paper game Hang Man.  It pulls it's word list from dictionary files that are either supplied with the product or you can create yourself.

Create your own Word/Phrase Dictionaries and challenge your friends !!!

Help Index

Menu Bar

Creating your own Dictionary of Words/Phrases


Menu Bar

The Menu Bar contains the following topics.

File

New Game

Open Dictionary


New Game

Choose this menu item to begin a new game.  The statistics will be reset and scoring will begin again.


Open Dictionary

Choose this menu item to open a new dictionary of words.  You will be given the familiar file open dialog to choose a new dictionary.  The dictionaries have a .DIC extension.


Create your own Dictionary of Words/Phrases

You can create any number of Dictionaries to use with Win HangMan.  Simply use NotePad or any text editor to create them.  They are formatted as Word/Phrase followed by a comma then the category of the Word/Phrase.  Upper-Case/Lower-Case characters are not important.  Special Characters such as hyphen(-), parentheses(), and question marks(?) are OK as well.

Categories can be anything you want and the words/phrases can be up to 32 characters in length

including spaces and any special characters.

Example:

Vegetable, thing

Richard Nixon, person

Radio Controlled Car, thing

Cordless phone, thing

monitor, thing

north carolina, place

Note: since the words and categories are seperated by commas, if you wish to include a comma in the word or phrase, enclose the word/phrase in double quotation marks.

Example:   "hear no evil, speak no evil"