Hangman (simple CLI)

A small command-line Hangman game written in Python.

How to run

• Make sure you have Python installed (3.7+ recommended).
• From PowerShell in the project folder run:

python .\main.py

Gameplay

• You have 10 attempts to guess the word.
• Enter single letters to guess.
• Type hint to reveal one unrevealed letter; this costs 2 attempts and applies a -3 point penalty and can be used only once.
• Repeated guesses are ignored (no attempt lost) and previously guessed letters are shown.

Scoring

• Correct guesses: +5 points per occurrence of the revealed letter.
• Wrong guesses: -2 points per wrong guess.
• Using the hint: -3 points (in addition to the 2-attempt cost).

Score persistence

• After each game the program asks for your name and saves a record to scores.json in the same folder.
• Each record contains name, score, word, result (win or lose) and an ISO timestamp.

Files

• main.py - the game
• scores.json - created when you save a score (appended as an array of records)
• README.md - this file