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NAME

6       hangman, words - word games
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/games/hangman [ dict ]
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11       /usr/games/words
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DESCRIPTION

14       Hangman  chooses  a  word at least seven letters long from a word list.
15       The user is to guess letters one at a time.
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17       The optional argument names an alternate word list.  The  special  name
18       `-a' gets a particular very large word list.
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20       Words  prints  all the uncapitalized words in the word list that can be
21       made from letters in string.
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FILES

24       /usr/dict/words          the regular word list
25       /crp/dict/web2      the the -a word list
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DIAGNOSTICS

28       After each round, hangman reports the average  number  of  guesses  per
29       round and the number of rounds.
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BUGS

32       Hyphenated compounds are run together.
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34       UNIX software is distributed without the -a word list.
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