Play Hangman using Wordnik and Hubot!

A coffee-script based chat add-on for playing Hangman. The script originated in the hubot-scripts repo. The hubot-scripts repo was later deprecated in favor of using stand alone node_modules for each hubot add-on. Seeing as the hangman.coffee script had not been touched or modified in several years and the originator of the script did not have a repo with anything related to hangman, I opted to port this and keep it maintained with the MIT license.

Please feel free to leave any feedback on the github project.

The script requires a Wordnik API key which you will need to request and setup as a CONFIG_VAR on Heroku. The API keys are free to request. http://developer.wordnik.com/

API

• hubot hangman - Display state of current game or start new game.
• hubot hangman {x} - Make a single character guess.
• hubot hangman {word} - Make a guess to solve the puzzle.

Installation

Run the following command

$ npm install hubot-hangman

Then to make sure the dependencies are installed:

$ npm install

To enable the script, add a hubot-hangman entry to the external-scripts.json file (you may need to create this file).

["hubot-hangman"]

Release Notes

1.3.1

• Added ' as a default guess. Now spaces, dashes, and apostrophes will not require guessing and will be shown in the word printout.
• If you notice any other special characters causing problems please create an issue on the github project for me to address.

1.3.0

• Fixed: Issue #1
• Thanks to cpradio for finding another special character bug.
• Updated the special characters to be defined as an array that we can expand in the future if necessary.
• Now both spaces and dashes will be shown in the word.
• Example: This-is a-game would now be shown as ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? - ? ? ? ?.
• Happy guessing!

1.2.1

• 1.2.0 bug fix.
• Dashes were considered guessed, but weren't shown as guessed characters.
• Now dashes are shown in word. The 8 letter word is: ? ? ? ? - ? ? ?

1.2.0

• Added - as a default guess. Many users don't expect a dash to appear in the word and hence never guess special characters.
• Dash will be given for free.
• If you guess a - it will be treated as a previously guessed letter and will not count against you.
• If the word contains a dash, it will be shown automatically.

1.1.0

• Bugfix: Changed unguessed character identifier from - to ?. Some words in the WORDNIK api include dashes, this can confuse the game leaving you stuck in an eternal loop. Changing the character to a question mark to prevent this from happening in the future. *'s and _'s have been avoided due to markdown formatting used by many chat client apps.

1.0.1

• Updated tags for npmjs.com search

1.0.0

• Confirmed hubot-hangman script is not available as NPM package
• Migrated hubot-hangman script into NPM package format
• Changed unguessed character identifier from _ to - to improve client formatting
• Published npmjs.com