Hangman Game — Classic Word Guessing

This is a genuine, fully playable Hangman game, not a static mockup: every round runs a real state machine that picks a random word with the browser's cryptographically secure crypto.getRandomValues (not Math.random), tracks every letter you have guessed, and gives you six wrong guesses before the round ends. Choose animals, countries, food, science, general knowledge, or mix every list together, then reveal the hidden word one correct letter at a time.

The gallows figure is a real progressive SVG drawing, not a single image swapped at the end: the frame — base, post, beam, and rope — is drawn immediately, and each wrong guess reveals the next actual SVG shape in sequence — head, body, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg — so you can see exactly how close you are to the sixth and final mistake. Correct and incorrect letters are also color-coded live on the on-screen keyboard, which sits alongside full physical keyboard support: click a letter or simply type it, and already-guessed letters disable themselves automatically.

The bundled word list is a hand-picked, English-only set of several hundred everyday words spread across five categories — it is a curated sample for gameplay variety, not an exhaustive dictionary. A lightweight session win/loss streak is kept in your browser's sessionStorage purely as a nice-to-have running score; it is never sent anywhere, clears the moment you close the tab, and the game itself needs no sign-up, no download, and no server round trip at any point.