Hangman
Guess the hidden word in six misses. Play a quick round, choose a category, take today’s Daily, or pass the device to a friend.
Hidden word
Clue: Category appears here
Choose a letter or use your keyboard.
The word and keyboard are hidden. The timer is stopped.
Daily Hangman · rolling 365archive · Clean state · local streak
Past-date replays can be completed, but they do not retroactively extend the active Daily streak. On-time completions are recorded only on that puzzle’s calendar date.
Practice masteryprospective only · category × difficulty
Mastery starts with rounds played in this Hangman page. No earlier progress is invented.
Recent rounds & reviewactual local evidence only
Word bank & difficulty1,200 curated words · 12 categories
Built from DailyBrainArc’s existing hand-authored themed lists. Unsafe and awkward entries are filtered, and recent Practice words are avoided until needed.
Each category is ranked using a recorded score that combines letter-frequency miss pressure, rare letters, word length and existing commonness ordering; the four bands are not random partitions.
A Hint reveals a genuinely hidden letter and marks the round Assisted. Clean and Assisted outcomes remain separate.
How to playclassic six-miss rules
Tap A–Z or type on a physical keyboard. Repeating an already-guessed letter never costs another miss.
Spaces, apostrophes and hyphens are visible from the start. A wrong whole-word solve costs one miss.
Pause hides the board and stops the timer. Active rounds resume locally on the same device.