Play Sorrel Row Hangman

How to play Sorrel Row Hangman

Classic hangman on a potting bench in a community garden at dusk: guess the word on the slate one letter at a time before the scarecrow in the bed is finished.

1. Press Play. Godfrey chalks a word on the slate as one blank per letter, with its category and its length above it.
2. Tap a seed packet, or type a letter, to guess it. If the letter is in the answer it is chalked in everywhere it appears, and its packet gets a stamp.
3. If it is not, its packet is struck through and a piece goes up on the scarecrow in the bed. With eight misses the scarecrow goes up one piece at a time; with six, some pieces go up two at a time.
4. Find every letter before the scarecrow is finished. If you are stuck, Hint chalks in the first letter still hidden and counts as a miss, and Show word, pressed twice, shows the answer as a loss.
5. When the word is done, a ribbon over the packets shows how it went, with a button for the next word. Menu opens the categories, today’s word, Settings, your statistics and the rules.

Controls

• Touch or mouse: tap a seed packet to guess its letter. Hint, Show word and Menu sit at the front edge of the bench, under your thumb.
• Keyboard: type any letter to guess it. ? gives a hint, Enter goes on to the next word once this one is done, Escape closes a sheet and Tab moves between the buttons.
• Restart in the toolbar puts a fresh word from the same category on the slate (a word you had begun counts as shown). Today’s word stays put, since it is played once. The toolbar also has pause, help, optional sound and fullscreen.