Here is my code for hangman(6). The pod docs are pretty much a direct copy from the man page displayed via the site. I have made a special word list (wordlist.txt, attached) that contains 9150 separate words. Basically took the word list in /usr/dict/words, removed proper nouns, plurals, and mutations of words ( abase vs. abasement, for example ), and put them in this list, so that it could be used across multiple platforms. This file should go in the same directory as the hangman file, as that is where it expects to find it. Anyway, here is the code. As said before, I attached the word list, so you don't have to go through all 9151 lines to create the file. Mike Schechter