Preface

This is just one of the billions of other ways to create a hangman game. And this might not be the very version of hangman you want. However, through this project, I was for the first time able to create an interactive code using python. I hope you people will feel the same way.

Before getting started

For sound effects, I've created a folder called sound and put some sound effects called good.wav for ringing and bad.wav for buzzing. You can freely download these .wav sound effects from freesound.org.

Also, to have your hangman game be able to create random words, you need to create a csv file. In a folder called resource, I've created a csv file called word_list.csv in a format like this:

Name,Hint
strawberry,fruit
grape,fruit
melon,fruit
orange,fruit
wagon,type of vehicle
van,type of vehicle
sedan,type of vehicle

You are free to add more words and hints, as long as it stays in that format.

Import modules

In this hangman, I'll be using four modules: time, csv, random, and winsound.

The time module will be used for fancy loading screens, csv for reading files with hints and words, random to create random questions, and winsound to have sound effects.

import time
import csv
import random
import winsound

Beginning

Let's ask the user for his/her name and make some loading screens and stuff like that.

# Greeting
name = input("What is your name? ")

print("Hi!, " + name, "Time to play hangman game!")

print()

# wait for 1 second (loading effect)
time.sleep(1)

print("Start loading...")
print()
# wait for 0.5 second
time.sleep(0.5)

Creating a word (question) randomly

# creating a list called words
words = []

with open('./resource/word_list.csv', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    next(reader)
    for c in reader:
        words.append(c)

# the answer

random.shuffle(words)

q = random.choice(words)

# removes unnecessary characters & creates a word
word = q[0].strip()

Guesses and turns

guesses = ''"

turns = 10

The crucial function

while turns > 0:
    # fails
    failed = 0

    # repeating the answer word
    for char in word:
        # if the char in word was in guesses
        if char in guesses:
            # prints the predicted/correct char
            print (char, end=' ')
        else:
            # if else print _ instead
            print ("_", end=' ')
            # +fail
            failed += 1

    # if failed==0 (all chars are predicted correctly) => success
    if failed == 0:
        print()
        print()
        winsound.PlaySound('./sound/good.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME)
        print("Congratulations! The Guesses is correct.")
        # break
        break

    print()

    # predicting the char
    print()
    print('Hint : {}'.format(q[1].strip()))
    guess = input("guess a character:")

    # adding the char to a list
    guesses += guess

    # if the char was not in the word
    if guess not in word:
        # reduces turns
        turns -= 1
        # messege
        print("Oops! Wrong")
        # prints remaining turns
        print("You have", + turns, 'more guesses!')

        # if turns are all used up
        if turns == 0:
            # failure messege
            winsound.PlaySound('./sound/bad.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME)
            print("You hangman game failed. Bye!")

Hope you enjoy it!