Like “Foxes Like Jazz” or “Queuing With Babes.” And if your opponent questions the validity of your phrases, you can always say they’re the names of indie bands. If you then have to switch to phrases, just combine a few of these awkwardly. 7 | Switch to phrases by combining tough words Some good, even longer, words are zapping, bopping, queuing, blobbing, fluffiest, wooziness, babbling, kookiest, overjoying, woolliness, hobnobbing, mummifying, alkalizing, cockiness, voodooing and overjoying. Which isn’t just the made-up first name of the guy who used to make beats for DMX, apparently. Also, if you want to go back to using multiple Zs, you can do jazzy, fuzzy, fizzy, dizzy and swizz.
Once four-letter words have been banned because the other person has unleashed a barrage of *other* four-letter words at you for being a dick, switch to longer, more difficult words.įive-letter words can include fazes, foxed, waxes, staff, babes, and joker. 6 | Prepare for the switch to longer words
So now you can dip down into other good four-letter words to obfuscate the other person: Hajj, jinx, puff, jiff, zine, junk, fife, foxy, jays, and duff (or Fudd, if proper names of imaginary beers are allowed). But after you get that victory, you’ve just made the other person savvy to your style. So a word with a double Z is great for an early win. 5 | After one or two turns, get off the Z words If someone challenges you that “hajj” isn’t a real word, play the race card. So if you’re playing Dirty Hangman, take that as a hint.)īuzz and jazzed are the next hardest words to guess, followed by hajj. (Although A is more common than I in terms of vowels. Based on letter frequency of words in the dictionary, J is the least common letter and Z is the fourth-least. The hardest word to guess in Hangman (at least against a computer or a rational human)? Jazz. But the best way to win at Hangman is to give the other person a brutal four-letter word. I’ll be referencing this statistical analysis quite a bit through this list. 4 | Now play a short word with obscure letters
So for your first word, go with a difficult but not too aggressive pick like “embryo.” Or sucker them in even more with a word like “rhythm” or “crypt” or “gypsy” - that will make them prematurely guess the mediocre letter Y for several games to come. And then you can get blown up because your opponent will stop guessing nice, suburban letters like E and S and start guessing letters from the wrong side of the tracks like X and K. But if you bust them out first, you’ve shown your hand. And that means you need to run a minor hustle as if you were a pool player with the same first name as a state (male) or lethal Korean woman in a catsuit (female).Īs we’ll get into below, “jazz” and “buzz” are the hardest words to guess. 3 | Hustle the other person in by curbing early clevernessĪssuming you’ll play multiple games, you’ve got to treat this as a long term play, not a “take it one game at a time” cliche. Remember: Just like in life and cognitive dissonance land, lying through omission isn’t actually lying. If you say anything like “No minimum size on words, right?” or “Any length word is ok?” then you’re inviting discussion on the topic. Make a big deal about it - “That’s half the alphabet!” - and finally faux-acquiesce to eight, which is what you wanted all along. You’ll get a big backlash for at least 10, maybe 11, 12 or 13. Six is the minimum, eight is ok, 10 and 11 are standard. Since you’ll be picking more difficult words and making smarter letter guesses, you want as few turns as possible between guessing and death.
#Ultimate hangman plus#
You don’t want to play Hangman where he gets gallows plus a head, body, two arms, two legs, hands, feet, eyes, nose, ears, mouth and penis. Now you show those tweens who the REAL genius is. So much like my list of 11 Strategies For Dominating Monopoly (hint: mortgage everything and go for the kill immediately), here’s my list of suggestions for dominating Hangman. (It’s nice to see Zynga rip off a game that isn’t copyrighted occasionally.) Also, you might play the Hanging With Friends app which isn’t pure Hangman but certainly draws from it. I know it’s a little obsessive to write an entire list about dominating Hangman since, most likely, you’ll be playing it against a 10-year-old cousin or something. But long before there were video games, people were playing a game where they happily snapped a man’s neck just because the letter “b” wasn’t in a word. Ya know, they say video games are violent.
#Ultimate hangman how to#
If winning is everything to you, here’s how to dominate hangman like I do.
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