Free Javascripts

Hangman

In a Nutshell: Treat your visitors to a break from the mundane with this rapid-fire Javascript version of Hangman. Customise its content, time limit and difficulty settings as you like.

HANGMAN

TURNS LEFT:

TIME REMAINING:

Use it Yourself: Cut and paste the following script and form into the <body> section of your page's HTML code. The input values near the end of this code can easily be manipulated to alter the game's difficulty level, and the contents can be customised to whatever the focus of your site (if not American presidents).

<body onload="count();"> <table border=1><tr> <form name="hang"><td align="center" colspan=13> <font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica" color="teal" size="+1"><strong>HANGMAN</strong></font></td></tr> <input type="hidden" name="word" value=""> <script language="javascript">    var words=new Array(); words[0] = "GEORGE WASHINGTON"; words[1] = "JOHN ADAMS"; words[2] = "THOMAS JEFFERSON"; words[3] = "JAMES MADISON"; words[4] = "JAMES MONROE"; words[5] = "JOHN QUINCY ADAMS"; words[6] = "ANDREW JACKSON"; words[7] = "MARTIN VAN BUREN"; words[8] = "WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON"; words[9] = "JOHN TYLER"; words[10] = "JAMES POLK"; words[11] = "ZACHARY TAYLOR"; words[12] = "MILLARD FILLMORE"; words[13] = "FRANKLIN PIERCE"; words[14] = "JAMES BUCHANAN"; words[15] = "ABRAHAM LINCOLN"; words[16] = "ANDREW JOHNSON"; words[17] = "ULYSSES GRANT"; words[18] = "RUTHERFORD HAYES"; words[19] = "JAMES GARFIELD"; words[20] = "CHESTER ARTHUR"; words[21] = "GROVER CLEVELAND"; words[22] = "BENJAMIN HARRISON"; words[23] = "GROVER CLEVELAND"; words[24] = "WILLIAM MCKINLEY"; words[25] = "THEODORE ROOSEVELT"; words[26] = "WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT"; words[27] = "WOODROW WILSON"; words[28] = "WARREN HARDING"; words[29] = "CALVIN COOLIDGE"; words[30] = "HERBERT HOOVER"; words[31] = "FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT"; words[32] = "HARRY TRUMAN"; words[33] = "DWIGHT EISENHOWER"; words[34] = "JOHN KENNEDY"; words[35] = "LYNDON JOHNSON"; words[36] = "RICHARD NIXON"; words[37] = "GERALD FORD"; words[38] = "JIMMY CARTER"; words[39] = "RONALD REAGAN"; words[40] = "GEORGE BUSH"; words[41] = "BILL CLINTON"; alpha="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; ltr=0; ltc=0; for (i=0;i<2;i++) { document.write("<tr>"); for (j=0;j<13;j++) { a='<td><tt><input type="button" value=" '; a+=alpha.substring(ltr,ltr+1)+' " onclick="'; document.write(a+'letter(this);"></tt></td>'); ltr++; }; document.write("</tr>"); }; var rnd=Math.floor(Math.random()*words.length); document.hang.word.value=words[rnd].toUpperCase(); document.write('<tr><td colspan=13 align="center"><tt><font size=+2>'); for (i=0;i<words[rnd].length;i++) { a=words[rnd].substring(i,i+1); if (alpha.indexOf(a,0)>-1) { a="*"; ltc++; }; document.write('<input type="button" value="'+a+'">'); }; document.write('</font></tt></td></tr>'); function letter(l) { a=l.value.substring(1,2); l.value=" "; dh=document.hang; if (a!=" ") { w=dh.word.value; b=w.indexOf(a,0); f=1; dhl=dh.left; while (b>-1) { dh.elements[b+27].value=a; b=w.indexOf(a,b+1); f=0; ltc--; }; dhl.value-=f; if (dhl.value==0) for (j=0;j<26;j++) dh.elements[j+1].click(); }; }; function count() { dh=document.hang; dhc=dh.clock; dhl=dh.left; dhc.value-=1; v=dhl.value*ltc*dhc.value if (v>0) setTimeout("count();",1000); else { msg="Congratulations!"; if (dhl.value<0) msg="You Have No More Tries!"; if (ltc>0) msg="Time Out! Answer:\n"+dh.word.value; dhl.value="0"; alert(msg); }; }; </script> <tr><td align="center" colspan=5>TURNS LEFT:<input type="button" value="10" name="left"></td> <td colspan=5 align="center">TIME REMAINING:<input type="button" value="60" name="clock"></td> <td colspan=3 align="center"><input type="button" value="Again" onclick="location='hangman.html';"> </td></form></tr></table>

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