A simple hangman game where the computer can either help you play your own game of hangman or can try to guess your word.
This was inspired by a game of Hangman at work today where I said I would make a solver for the game.
Thankfully, this (possibly cheating) software also showcases a good bit of functional programming in Python, which I am currently trying to improve upon in my own time.
Hope you enjoy!
- Standard Python 3.6 install
For help with understanding Regex (regular expressions), this site helped me a lot when I was first learning them.
Special thanks to the people that have helped me with the code and how to improve its readability and focus on functional programming. While I didn't take all of their suggestions, I did try to incorporate most of them. Please give them an up vote here.
Here is an example of a game where the word was jawbreaker.
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) __________
There are 7943 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
e with a likelihood of 11.47%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _____e__e_
There are 149 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
s with a likelihood of 14.68%
Was I correct? (y/n) n
There are 52 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
r with a likelihood of 12.02%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) ____re__er
There are 3 possible words.
daydreamer
jawbreaker
lawbreaker
Your most likely letter is...
a with a likelihood of 33.33%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _a__rea_er
There are 3 possible words.
daydreamer
jawbreaker
lawbreaker
Your most likely letter is...
k with a likelihood of 16.67%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _a__reaker
There are 2 possible words.
jawbreaker
lawbreaker
Your most likely letter is...
b with a likelihood of 33.33%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _a_breaker
There are 2 possible words.
jawbreaker
lawbreaker
Your most likely letter is...
w with a likelihood of 50.00%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _awbreaker
There are 2 possible words.
jawbreaker
lawbreaker
Your most likely letter is...
j with a likelihood of 50.00%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) jawbreaker
It took me 8 guesses to get it.
Another example game where the word was timothy.
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _______
There are 11681 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
e with a likelihood of 12.02%
Was I correct? (y/n) n
There are 3953 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
a with a likelihood of 11.08%
Was I correct? (y/n) n
There are 1616 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
i with a likelihood of 13.81%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _i_____
There are 106 possible words.
Your most likely letter is...
o with a likelihood of 14.62%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) _i_o___
There are 3 possible words.
timothy
bigotry
disowns
Your most likely letter is...
t with a likelihood of 20.00%
Was I correct? (y/n) y
What is currently on the board?
(Input unknown characters with _) ti_ot__
There are 1 possible words.
timothy
It's obviously timothy.
It took me 5 guesses to get it.