Sunday, November 18, 2012

Physical Hangman

Hangman is a classic, simple word game. Yesterday, Todd decided to take it a step further and make it a physical, 3-dimensional game.

He assembled the various pieces with Legos: the gallows, the individual body parts of the unfortunate hanging victim, and the blank letter tiles for the word to be guessed. As I guessed correct letters, he assembled those letters out of Legos right then and there, and stuck them to the letter blanks. Here we are after one successful guess:

Empty gallows, a 5-letter word, and an "E" in the middle of it

After that, I managed to guess a succession of wrong answers in a row. Fortunately, I guessed the word before the man could be completely assembled. Whew! Just in the nick of time:

An almost complete (hanging) man, and the guessed puzzle: "Hello"

What a neat little twist on a classic pen-and-paper (or online, in this digital age!) game!

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