man(1) Manual page archive


     WORDS(6)                                                 WORDS(6)

     NAME
          hangman, words - word games

     SYNOPSIS
          /usr/games/hangman [ dict ]

          /usr/games/words

     DESCRIPTION
          Hangman chooses a word at least seven letters long from a
          word list.  The user is to guess letters one at a time.

          The optional argument names an alternate word list.  The
          special name `-a' gets a particular very large word list.

          Words prints all the uncapitalized words in the word list
          that can be made from letters in string.

     FILES
          /usr/dict/words          the regular word list
          /crp/dict/web2      the the -a word list

     DIAGNOSTICS
          After each round, hangman reports the average number of
          guesses per round and the number of rounds.

     BUGS
          Hyphenated compounds are run together.

          UNIX software is distributed without the -a word list.