• the computer will randomly select ten words for you each round
• to start the game, and to move on to each new word, click the "next word" button
• guess which letters you think the current word contains by clicking on the letter you want to guess
• every correct guess will show you more of the word
• every incorrect guess will bring the man in the upper left corner closer to being hung (it takes eight incorrect guesses to hang him)

Scoring:

• you lose two points for every incorrect letter you click
• you gain points after every word you manage to guess
• words are worth different point values depending on their difficulty (they range from 50 to 205 points)

Interesting Hangman Trivia: