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Hangman guess whole word

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StormyNight
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Posted: Sun, 08/11/2020 22:19 (4 Years ago)
More times than I can remember, I have lost or almost lost hangmen because of misclicks, so what if there was a system similar to the real hangman game or wheel of fortune that if you know or think you know the word, you could type it in and guess the whole thing besides clicking each and every letter which takes forever.
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Posted: Mon, 16/11/2020 22:08 (4 Years ago)
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 02:04 (4 Years ago)

Title: Implement it!

This feature should be added ASAP! Very few games in PH are quick and eat up time. This would save player the frustration of losing the game to miss clicks, disconnects and free up extra time to use other game features like fishing.
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 02:31 (4 Years ago)
It's a nice idea, but wouldn't typing things in take longer than clicking letters? It's easier to misclick things on a phone, but it's also easier to make typos, too, so that's a whole other problem... not to mention possible autocorrect.

And you're still prone to misclicking letters to show more of the word (like if I wanted "e" but clicked "f" instead), so in the end it's going to waste more time than it saves, or at least that's my perspective
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 02:38 (4 Years ago)
But by typing in the letters, you could then press enter after to confirm it, giving you the chance to double-check, as it were.
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 02:41 (4 Years ago)
Support! I was wondering the same thing on my few rounds with hangman. For me, it's not so much misclicking as it is just tedious to click the individual letters
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 03:06 (4 Years ago)
Sure, you can double-check what you type but you can also double-check what you click. You're still prone to misclicking letters to reveal and this whole thing just overcomplicates things.

Just make sure you're clicking the right letter and everything is fine. Edit: like if you're releasing pokemon and you accidentally release a shiny, especially back when the recovery tool wasn't added. Multiple fail-safes were added and people still released shinies and shiny megas.
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 03:08 (4 Years ago)
But most people use hangman helper anyway sl you could just copy and paste it
And if you wanted you could still click the letters individually
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Posted: Tue, 17/11/2020 09:37 (4 Years ago)
Support. I always mess up the clicks
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Posted: Wed, 18/11/2020 00:05 (4 Years ago)
sopport but what if you cant spell well
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Posted: Wed, 18/11/2020 01:31 (4 Years ago)
What if I don't know the word, but I try guessing the full word anyway? If I get it wrong, do I lose entirely or just one life? It probably wouldn't hurt to have it, but I personally wouldn't have a problem clicking letters. Guessing the full word might make things more convenient, though I kind of wonder if it can be too helpful to the point of some exploit.
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Posted: Wed, 18/11/2020 01:33 (4 Years ago)
I think 2 or 3 lives maybe to prevent exploits.
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Posted: Fri, 20/11/2020 00:04 (3 Years ago)
If a word-guess is either "correct" or "wrong", I don't see a reason to take more than one life?
How do you exploit this, when all it's telling you is whether the word itself is wrong?

No matter the length, there are more possibilities than lives, so it's not like you can just go over every word of a certain length and get the prize without actually playing.

I like the idea because typing out the word would force me to pay attention [and at this point, my chain(s) only get broken when I don't pay attention], but if it's implemented, I'd probably forget this was a possibility and go back to my tried-and-true method of clicking letters after a few words.
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Posted: Fri, 20/11/2020 00:19 (3 Years ago)
Yeah I guess that makes sense to only get rid of one life
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Posted: Fri, 20/11/2020 00:43 (3 Years ago)
I believe it's rather hard to double-check when you click when it comes to mobile users. A lot of smart phones are big, but a lot are also on the smaller side. It's also a bit difficult to see what you're clicking if your finger covers 2-3 buttons. Time wise, it would also be quicker to type in a whole word when internet comes into play. Let's say you have slow internet. Would it be faster to click...wait...click...wait...click...wait (rinse and repeat)? Or would it be quicker to type a whole word...wait?

Support from me, especially since I have twitchy fingers, making it hard for me to hit correct buttons on mobile :)
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Posted: Fri, 20/11/2020 14:04 (3 Years ago)
bigsupport.but maybe we earn extra points from doing that
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StormyNight
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Posted: Thu, 03/12/2020 12:57 (3 Years ago)
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Dixi
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Posted: Sat, 12/12/2020 21:23 (3 Years ago)
Would it be ok to see the listing of words because there are last I check 1919 different words
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Posted: Sun, 25/04/2021 23:42 (3 Years ago)
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Cherry_Blossom
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Posted: Sun, 01/09/2024 08:24 (2 Months ago)
Supporting the suggestion to enter a full word too.

But also would like to add another suggestion (might be a little off-topic if not entirely)
My suggestion is to open up an input method of the keyboard where we can press the respective key to select the letter. Not only when we know the entire word, but also as individual letter guesses (Like we'd do with the onscreen alphabet for hangman currently but via keyboard and not mouse)

While this mini-suggestion of mine doesn't aim to reduce the rate of misclicks, I feel it would reduce misclicks for PC/Laptop users since if we were to click on the letters super quick, the layout dances a bit sometimes, making us select the wrong letter. With the keyboard method, at least the keys won't move around.

Another point is Speed. While it is fairly quick on Phone since we can quickly press on multiple letters. On Laptop/PC, it is not as quick because the player has to locate each letter and click it individually with the help of a mouse/cursor which can be much slower than when played on the phone.