I always thought it was a man at the gallows, not someone killing themselves.
Yeah, I thought the implication was that in the lore of whatever pretend reality the game takes place in, the penalty for losing the game is getting executed by hanging
I never thought that deeply about the game but I had some teachers who would rather draw a house or something instead of the hanging man
If you can’t guess the word, you will be saddled with a hefty mortgage that has an unreasonable interest rate.
Oh jeeze that is worse.
Yeah, I also had a teacher like that.
I played Hangaroo when I was little so the penalty was not even done to me lol
Some people do a very thorough job.
“Jim killed himself.”
“My, god. How?”
“He constructed his own gallows, complete with support to ensure his weight wouldn’t bow or split the noose beam, and dangled above the well crafted platform.”
“Wow. That’s Jim to a T.”
“Yes. Tragically a T would have prevented all of this.”
In the Bible, there are two accounts of the death of Judas. In one, he hangs himself. In another, he goes out into his field and his guts spill out and he dies.
And I had a Christian tell me that first he hanged himself and then his guts spilled out and then he died.
So apparently, he went out into a field, built a gallows, tested the gallows, hung himself from the gallows, didn’t die, so God had to complete the job by making his guts spill out and not, I don’t know, break his neck?
Fun note too that theologians have decided it wasn’t betraying Jesus that got him damned to hell for eternity that would have been fine and they could have all enjoyed heaven together but he got depressed and killed himself which damned him to hell
Jesus just watching with a shrug as his friend who helped him carry out his whole destiny of saving us from original sin burns on agony
Also one of Jesus closest friends who’d been there with loads of the proving Jesus is Christ moments still didn’t really believe in him enough to actually think he was the literal son of God who reigns over heaven or surely he’d understand the his earthly death isn’t really a big deal to him - like when I log off a video game and I’m back in my bedroom.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
I’ve heard that Judas went and hanged himself over the edge of a cliff, and then the rope snapped (because Judas apparently couldn’t handle hanging himself properly), and he fell into the field, where his guts spilled out.
That said, the person I heard that from is one of the Christian pastors I’m related to, whose only real claim to knowledge on the subject was a one-week “Bible tour” of Israel.
Did they explain why the edge of a cliff and not, say, a roof rafter?
“So everyone could see what happened,” is the best reason I could get.
You want to wreck someone at hangman? Choose “jazz”. Getting “A” as the second letter is no help at all, and “J” and “Z” are the last letters anyone guesses.
Or worse. Jazzy.
I still remember getting that in Wordle. I think I stopped playing after that.
Rhythm
Play hangman in a language with more letters. For example, the Russian alphabet has 33 letters, Hindi has 50 and Khmer - 74.
It’s even funnier when the Russian alphabet is so misleadingly similar to the Latin one.
Blame those greek monks, who created Cyrillic alphabet!
Wait.
Are we the weird ones for making the R look like this “P”?
If “we” are Greeks - then yes!
You are devious and evil.
I like you.
I’ve always had pretty good luck with “purr” as well
Oxidize is also a good word to wreck someone at hangman.
“Hymn”
You basically lose just guessing the 5 vowels
The dumber you are, the more people you hang.
I always thought it was funny how media depicted kids not wanting to play dodgeball in gym when I had the exact opposite experience in real life all through school. We loved to beat the shit out of each other with rubber balls! It sure as hell beat running a mile.
Hell yeah. Although I only played a few times.
My fave games as a kid were both pretty macabre; “Voice of the Mummy” and “Seance,” they were both Milton Bradley games that came with a built-in record player and both had kind of creepy themes. In Voice of the Mummy you slowly climb up a pyramid collection jewels and doing what the record player commands, like “take one more jewel if you’ve ever tasted human blood.” Great stuff for an imaginative kid!
