Hangman Game in Python

Hangman is a word game in which the computer will randomly select a word from the dictionary and the player has to guess it correctly in a given number of turns. The word to be guessed is represented by the row of stars. If the guessed letter is present in a word, the script will automatically be placed in the correct places.

Rules to guess the word:

1. Input single letter in one turn.
2. Don’t use repeated letters.
3. Turns will be decremented after every guess.

This is the text file used inside the code words.txt, which contains 50,000 English words. 

Module needed:

import random

Implementation:

File: main.py

Python3

# Python program to implement Hangman Game

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import random
import words

# Function to randomly select a word from dictionary
def get_word():
    # Path to the text file
    with open('/GeeksforGeeks/Hangman/words.txt', 'r') as f:
        # Reads each word after splitting
        words1 = f.read().splitlines()
    # Returns any random word
    return random.choice(words1)

def hangman():
    # randomly chose a word form the list of words.
    chosen_word = get_word()
    # keep an empty list that is used to display the letters
    # and empty spaces in a word that user must guess.
    display = []
    for _ in chosen_word:
        display += "_"

    # the initial game variables setup.
    # Set the lives and variable that keeps track of loop that runs
    # the game
    end_of_loop = False
    lives = 6

    # display a welcoming message for the user.
    print("\n-------------Welcome to Hangman-------------\n")
    print("Guess the word:- ", end=" ")
    print(f"{' '.join(display)}")
    print(f"Lives: {lives}")

    while not end_of_loop:
        guess = input("Guess a Letter: ").lower()
        # reduce the lives if the guessed letter does not exist in the
        # word that user has to guess
        if not (guess in chosen_word):
            lives -= 1
        # now replace empty space of word with guessed letter if the
        # user guessed a letter that is in the word.
        index = 0
        for c in chosen_word:
            if c == guess:
                display[index] = guess
            index += 1

        # Again display the status of game.
        print(f"{' '.join(display)}")
        print(f"Lives: {lives}")
        print(stages[lives-1])

        # check of there are no _ in the display list, then that means
        # the user has guessed all the letters correctly.
        if "_" not in display:
            print("You Win")
            end_of_loop = True

        # check if he has run out of lives, then he has lost the game.
        if lives == 0:
            print("You Lose")
            print(f"The word was: {chosen_word}")
            end_of_loop = True

# The loop that will keep calling the game play function again and again unless the user does not want to play it anymore.
end_of_game = False
while not end_of_game:
    # ask user if he wants to play the game
    ask = input("Do you want to play Hangman? (y/n): ").lower()
    # if he insert yes, then call the function for playing the game.
    if ask == 'y' or ask == 'yes':
        hangman()
    # if the answer is no, quit the loop and end the program.
    elif ask == 'n' or ask == 'no':
        print("Program Exit Successful")
        end_of_game = True
    # if the user entered something else, ask again.
    else:
        print("Your given input could not be processed.")
        print("Please enter a correct input.")

Output:

The IDE shown in the code output is Replit. It is a web browser-based IDE.

The output of Hangman Code