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title: ASCII-Hangman - hangman game for children with ASCII-art rewarding
---
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https://crates.io/crates/ascii-hangman)
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https://docs.rs/ascii-hangman)
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https://github.com/getreu/ascii-hangman)
A little game designed for primary kids to revise vocabulary in classroom.
Setting up the vocabulary list is part of the learning process.
Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One
player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other tries to guess it by
suggesting letters or numbers, within a certain number of guesses. In this
version for children the computer selects a word, phrase or sentence randomly
out of a word-list defined in a configuration file. As a reward, with every
guessed letter, some ASCII-art is gradually disclosed.
```
ASCII-ART HANGMAN FOR KIDS
,.
(_|,.
,' /, )_____
__j o``-'
(")
`-j
`-._(
|_\ |--^.
/_]'|_| /_
/_]' /
Lifes: 7 Last guess: k
g o o d l u _ k
Type a letter, then press [Enter]:
```
ASCII Hangman is available as a Web-Application and as a Desktop-Terminal-Application for several architectures.
Try [ASCII-Hangman-Web-App](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/web-app/) online.
Read more in [ASCII-Hangman's user manual](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/ascii-hangman--manual.html).
## Documentation
User documentation:
* User manual:
[ASCII-Hangman user manual - html](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/ascii-hangman--manual.html)
[ASCII-Hangman user manual - pdf](https://blog.getreu.net/_downloads/ascii-hangman--manual.pdf)
Developer documentation:
* [API documentation](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/_downloads/doc/ascii_hangman/)
## Source code
Repository:
* [ASCII-Hangman on Github](https://github.com/getreu/ascii-hangman)
## Distribution
### ASCII-Hangman web application
As the _ASCII-Hangman-Web-App_ is hosted on
[https://getreu.net](https://getreu.net), there is nothing to
install. Just follow the link and enjoy playing:
[ASCII-Hangman-Web-App](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/web-app/)
### ASCII-Hangman desktop version
* Binaries for latest release (Linux, Windows, iOS)
1. Open: [Releases - getreu/ascii-hangman](https://github.com/getreu/ascii-hangman/releases)
2. Open the latest release.
3. Open *assets*.
4. Download the packed executable for your operating system.
5. Installation: see below.
* Binaries and packages (usually built from latest commit):
- Executable for Windows:
[x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release/ascii-hangman.exe](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/_downloads/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release/ascii-hangman.exe)
- Binary for Linux:
[x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/ascii-hangman](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/_downloads/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/ascii-hangman)
[x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/ascii-hangman](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/_downloads/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/ascii-hangman)
- Package for Debian and Ubuntu:
[x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/debian/ascii-hangman_5.2.1_amd64.deb](https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/_downloads/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/debian/ascii-hangman_5.2.1_amd64.deb)
* Zipfile with all binaries and documentation:
- [ascii-hangman all](https://blog.getreu.net/_downloads/ascii-hangman.zip)
## Building and installing
This section describes how to download and build the desktop version
of _ASCII-Hangman_.
1. [Install Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install), e.g.
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
2. Download, compile and install:
cargo install ascii-hangman
sudo cp ~/.cargo/bin/ascii-hangman /usr/local/bin
See also the user manual for a more detailed installation description.
This project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
## About
Author:
* Jens Getreu
Copyright:
* Apache 2 licence or MIT licence