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Click on Wordlist and browse to the folder
where the Hangman Deluxe files are kept (Program Files\HangmDL unless
you changed the destination directory during installation). Inside that
folder you will see another, called Wordlists. Open that and choose your
language. |
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You have a choice of Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish,
Swahili or Swedish. (Possibly others, since we last looked!) |
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It was a challenge not to be resisted...to
get onto the High Scores list in any game is satisfying...
It did not look as though a very high score would be
forthcoming if only one in three words was guessed before the tries ran
out! |
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Hmm...did the author get the wordlist out of a
Victorian Penny Novelette? No, trumpery doesn't necessarily mean playing the same wrong
note twice on a trumpet and calling it jazz... |
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Not only was the word not guessed but it
was completely unknown to us, so it was time for a look in the dictionary...
"Of, or pertaining to the Batrachia, especially frogs and toads", it says in the Oxford English Dictionary. Well, of course, you knew
that! |
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Here is another word that was neither
guessed nor recognised!
The dictionary says "The beak or bill of a bird."
Perhaps the author is
a zooloogist or perhaps a seeker of obscure words in dusty
dictionaries...
We learn something every day and, on some days,
several things...
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Starting with the vowels works sometimes.
On the other hand, one can waste three or four guesses
that way! |
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Another word neither guessed nor
recognised! Lucky it was a short one!
The dictionary presented such a vast amount of
explanation that it is impossible to quote it here but, in a nutshell,
it seems to mean 'on a level with', as in, having equal footing or even
ground... |
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It is so satisfying when you manage to get
a long word! |
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This notice (with different words) came up three times,
followed on the first two occasions by ' " is not an integer' but,
at last, the magic words appeared and a slot for name-filling was
presented. |
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Well, 80% right answers is not too bad and
the real gain is two new words in our vocabulary!
Here's a game that will get to stay on our computer! |
