FG Hangman 18

[Nikolai]

Funny?

[Ljube]

Do you have any idea how many words fit this?
And you chose to guess the word?

[Nikolai]

No problem. I've played this game for years(in Norwegian, but it's basically the same of course), and the effect should then be that I can't guess more this time. Or do you use yet another dissimmilar rule than I am used too?`

[Nikolai]

I just checked the rules. As I though, the result if I am wrong is that I am out of play until next word.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I just checked the rules. As I though, the result if I am wrong is that I am out of play until next word.

I imagine what he is saying is that with only 4 guesses remaining, a guess would be far better spent picking a letter than on a word that is probably wrong. So nobody really cares that you can't guess any more, but actually that as a consequence the word might remain unguessed. Not that it matters much, IMO.

[Ljube]

Actually I care about it. It's a good thing he can't guess any more words.

[Nikolai]

Oh, stop complaining. This is a game, and in games one sometimes has to take risks. It makes things fun you know.

[Heresson]

Both sides have a point, but while I think Nikolai's guesses are strictly for +1 purpouses, He's right. It's just a game...

[Nikolai]

Thanks. My guesses are, while I might not know most of these obscure words, not only for +1 purposes. Of course, I have nothing against it, I think the amount of posts should be shown in the post count, because it's a post count, but I like to participate in games and maybe win. I haven't been near yet, but that's not my fault. Real rare words here...

[DrSpike]

I think forum Hangman is a team game, and making guesses unlikely to benefit yourself whilst making it much more likely that the team lose are a little disrespectful IMO, game or not.

People complain (in fun, obviously) at fiendish 5 letter words, but the truth is with all sensible guesses the chances of getting a given word are high. But in reality lots of words go unguessed...........

[snoopy369]

to what DrSpike said. It's a lesson I learned early on (exactly how the Hangman game works here), a few weeks ago Now I've won twice now ...

Anywho, that was wrong. And some of you guys could have guessed a letter first, couldn't ya have? Still waiting on letters


_ U _ _ Y

Guessed:
E T S I G B
FUNNY
3 guesses left.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by DrSpike
People complain (in fun, obviously) at fiendish 5 letter words, but the truth is with all sensible guesses the chances of getting a given word are high. But in reality lots of words go unguessed...........

To combat this - is it possible we could adjust the rule setting the limit to 10 guesses? Something like "Guesscount = 15-(number of letters)" with minimum of 5 guesses or something? (Or incorporate square roots or somesuch to allow for more slow limit drops...) ??

Or just a schedule of guesses for word amounts, such as

5-6 letters: 10-12 guesses
7-8 letters: 8-10 guesses
9-10 letters: 7-9 guesses
11+ letters: 6-8 guesses
(i leave a range here, we could leave the range to allow the word-maker the decision, or specify the limit?)

[Ljube]

M

[snoopy369]

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Guessed:
E T S I G B M
FUNNY
2 guesses left.

[alva]

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