Hangman

Hangman game in SNOBOL

Introduction

Hangman is a game whereby the player has to guess the letters of a word. Each time the player fails to guess a letter correctly, a section of gallows is constructed, until the user either correctly guesses the word, or the gallows are complete and the player is dead.

Technical Details

This program was written in SNOBOL purely since it's a language that I've vaguely heard of, and wanted to investigate.

To run the script, you will need to download the interpreter from Viktors Berstis' website and then install DOSBOX.

From DOSBOX you will first need to mount the folder containing your SNOBOL code:

mount c C:\Users\jdorr\Desktop\Snobol

To run you code simply use:

SNOBOL4 HANGMAN.SNO /Q

You will then be prompted to choose one of the 10 words in the game's dictionary:

Welcome to Hangman!
Enter a number between 1 and 10
?2
______

You will then be prompted to guess the letters of the word. If you choose wisely, you will win the game:

Guess an uppercase letter
?B
B_____
Guess an uppercase letter
?N
B_N_N_
?A
Congratulations! You correctly guessed BANANA

If you choose poorly, you will lose:

_ANANA
?Q

Uh-oh!
+------+    
|/     |       
|      @    
|     \|/   
|      |    
|     / \   
|\          
+-----------

YOU ARE DEAD!