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Let them practise on their own Hangman

Hangman with your own list

Put in the class register, the new starters or this week’s spelling words. The familiar game, with words that mean something to the room.

When to use it

The first week of term, while a class is still learning each other's names. A welcome session for a new intake or the first meeting of a club. This week's spelling words, played on the board with the whole room calling out letters.

What makes it this

Built on the Hangman generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.

  1. What gets drawn

    In the builder: The words

  2. Always show the keyboard

    Phones and tablets get one either way; this puts it on desktop too, so a letter can be clicked instead of typed.

    In the builder: How it plays › Solving aids

  3. Shuffle the word order

    In the builder: How it plays › General

Preview

View only — copy it to play.

Hangman with the class register — swap in your own names

Fourteen first names from a class that does not exist. Guess each one a letter at a time: ten wrong letters finish the drawing, and a letter you have already tried costs you nothing. Teachers — copy this activity and put your own register in the word list. That is the whole thing.

14 words

Why the example is built this way

  1. Plain A to Z names, no hyphens.

    A hyphen has to be guessed like a letter, and an accented letter isn't on the keyboard unless you turn on Special-character keys. Check your own list for both before you play.

  2. Fourteen names, shuffled.

    A register is alphabetical, so without Shuffle the word order everyone meets the same name first. More names than one sitting needs means a second go is a different set.

  3. A school bus instead of a gallows.

    Every picture under What gets drawn takes the same ten wrong letters, so choose one that suits the room. A class guessing each other's names doesn't need a gallows in front of them.

Build it yourself

  1. 1 Open the Hangman builder and fill in the The words tab.
  2. 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
  3. 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.

Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.