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HANGMAN(6)							 BSD Games Manual							HANGMAN(6)

NAME
hangman -- computer version of the game hangman SYNOPSIS
hangman [-d wordlist] [-m minlen] DESCRIPTION
In hangman, the computer picks a word from the on-line word list and you must try to guess it. The computer keeps track of which letters have been guessed and how many wrong guesses you have made on the screen in a graphic fashion. OPTIONS
-d Use the specified wordlist instead of the default one named below. -m Set the minimum word length to use. The default is 6 letters. FILES
/usr/share/dict/words On-line word list AUTHORS
Ken Arnold BSD
May 31, 1993 BSD

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POLISH(5)							      Debian								 POLISH(5)

NAME
polish - a list of Polish words DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/polish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line. FILES
/etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file. /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software should refer to the system word list. See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information. The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using the UTF-8 character set encoding. SEE ALSO
ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources. The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words. For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist. AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. Debian Project March 29th, 2011 POLISH(5)
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