How to Code a Game of Hangman... The EASY Way!! (Beginner Python Tutorial)

One of the most common introductory Python projects is to code a game of Hangman. Almost all of MIT's introductory coding classes require you successfully program this fun little game.

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In this video, I show you how to program a game of hangman that you can play on your computer. I randomly select a word from a list of words then continuously ask for user input until you win. Then, I show you how to incorporate lives so you can't get unlimited guesses.

**NOTE: in the words function, you should add a ".upper()" to "return word" so that everything is uppercased

Thanks for watching everyone!
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[KylieYYing]

**NOTE: in the words function, you should add a ".upper()" to "return word" so that everything is uppercased

Update: lol i'm thinking about redoing this video. comment below if you think that's a good idea

[leeroy]

Great tutorial. You carefully explain each step and why you're doing it. Perfect for a beginner. Unfortunately, a lot of "beginner" tutorials just race through and write lots of code and don't take time to pause and explain what's happening and why which is exactly what a tutorial is supposed to do.

[Jan_Jan_]

Thanks so much! As a beginner, it took me way longer than 10 mins to fully understand the logic. But, once it clicked, it all made sense! :D

[lijoso]

First: thank you very much. second - i'm beginner python program, so i try again to code hangman program or start from beginning. i'm also old man 63/yrs old, i never program my life, but i never give up, because it helps me to be active. thank you very much.

[emyrdaniela]

Thank you for this. This is exactly what I needed to see. I am doing intro to Python at Uni and we have a test in a few days. They gave us a practice test which is based on Hangman and yours pretty much covers the parameters of the practice. So I will use this to help me study up for the test.

[nimanizky]

watch ton of video teach by mit people and all i know is that you all has super clarity fo teaching something and simple!

[kapach]

i love the logic on how u approached the game. will try it

[jitendrachhetri]

Thanks Kylie for your great, easy-to-understand lesson for beginners like me. To make it a bit easier, I added 'Hint' option. It was fun :)

[mrgintl]

Really like your teaching style. I will check out more of your videos.

[arjun_sanjeev]

Love the way you clearly explain what each line of code does. Great for beginners like me.

[ben-zzrm]

Ben here Kylie. Sorry, worked out my problem...Forgot to end the routine with a closing function..hangman()..All good and keep up the good work.

[divinejojolola]

at 6:04 i run the code and even keep hangman() at the end of the code but nothing appears on my output. I ran it on pycharm and python idle. same result

[thelmalaryea]

Hello!please I am having challenges with the code.The dashes in a word are printing alright but the guessed letters are not printing even though it is in the word.I have crosschecked several times but I can't find the error

[tigressshah]

the best tutorial i have found till now very helpful in understanding

[footballizlyfe]

can change lives to
lives = len(word_letters) + 2
so that it has 2 more tries than the unique letters that are in the word

[hadireg]

nice little project... i'm crash learning python for a personal project and as I'm an old time programmer in old languages :) I discover the nice features described here in python dealing with strings when doing (alphabets - used_letters) 😊 I"m not used to have everything ready for me while rather thinking all the time I need to add it myself to the code. just need to know what's avail to make use of...

[kathleenbeltran]

I'd love to see a tutorial on how to make an advanced game of Hangman

[ViniciusRaphael]

On line 22 you write: if user_letter in alphabet - used_letters:
What alphabet - used_letters means?
I understand user_letter in alphabet or alphabeth in user_letters. But both together, I`m not sure I understand.

[bismo]

I've literally copied basically everything but it still doesn't run properly. All I get is after entering a letter it says 'process finished with exit code 0'. There's no 'current word' or 'used letters' or anything and it doesn't loop.

[guersomfalcon]

8:30 There is a problem, on line 33 you are trying to find a capital letter within a set of lowercase letters.