Hangman in Python - KidsLearn

Lives

Letters tried

Wins

Losses

⌨️ Controls

Just type a letter — any letter is a guess
Or click the alphabet along the bottom of the picture
ENTER a new word • ESC pause
The A E I O U button tries all five vowels at once.
🎮 Xbox controller? Not this one, sorry — this game is about typing letters, and a controller has no letters on it. Every other game takes a pad.

🎯 How to play

A word is hidden. Every letter you find is filled in.
A letter that is not in the word costs a life and draws another line.
Six wrong guesses and the picture is finished.
Guessing the same letter twice is free — it costs nothing.

🧠 Getting good

Start with the vowels: E, A, I, O, U. Almost every word has one.
Then the common consonants: R, S, T, N, L.
Count the blanks. Short words are much harder than long ones.
Look at what you have: _ I O N is not many words.

🧑‍💻 This whole game is Python

There is almost no JavaScript on this page. The browser downloaded Pyodide — a complete Python interpreter compiled to WebAssembly — and then ran the .py files in funtime/pylib/. Python does the rules, the maths and the drawing.

File	What it does	Good functions to try re-writing
pylib/hangman_rules.py	The rules: hiding the word, counting mistakes	`masked_word`, `is_word_complete`, `wrong_letters`, `guess_letter`
pylib/hangman_draw.py	The drawing — Python calling the canvas	`draw_gallows`, `draw_parts`, `render_game`
pylib/hangman_web.py	The glue: the keyboard and the alphabet row	`do_action`, `on_board_click`, `start_game`

🔍 Compare the two versions. Open lib/hangman-rules.js and pylib/hangman_rules.py side by side — same ideas, two languages.

🛠️ Build it yourself: Build Hangman in Python walks you through the functions one at a time.

⚠️ If the game never starts: the page has to read its .py files, which a browser will not do for a page opened straight off your disk. Use the live site, or run python3 -m http.server in the project folder.