Hangman

Hangman on CetinsGame is the letter guessing game you probably first played on the back of a school notebook. The boxes tell you how many letters the secret word has, the category tells you its topic, and you uncover it one letter at a time. In our version nobody is hanged: instead there is a kite with six colourful bows on its tail, and every wrong guess lets the wind carry one bow away.

Below you will find the controls, the three modes, how points are worked out, the Reveal hint, the kite designs and a few tactics based on letter frequency.

Uncover every letter of the secret word before the kite gets away. You have 7 tries in total: the 6 bows fly off one by one, and once they are all gone, one more mistake snaps the string and the kite drifts off into the distance. The word is then shown in red and the round is over.

You cannot type the whole word as a guess; everything goes letter by letter. In words with a space, the space is shown from the start.

• On-screen keyboard: tap a letter. If it is in the word, it appears everywhere it occurs and the key turns turquoise. If not, the key turns grey and a bow flies away.
• You cannot pick the same letter twice.
• On a computer you can also type on your physical keyboard; when a round ends, Enter takes you to the next word.
• The English keyboard has the 26 letters A to Z.
• Word language: in the How to play window you can choose the language of the words separately from the menu language. The English list has 749 words.

Streak: choose a category (one of 12, or Mixed) and a difficulty: Easy, Normal or Hard. Words come one after another, each word you guess adds one to your streak, and the streak ends when a word gets away. You can change category or difficulty mid-streak; if you have already picked a letter in the current word, the change applies from the next word. A streak you leave halfway is saved.

Word of the Day: a new word arrives every day at midnight Turkish time, and everyone playing in that language guesses the same word. You play it once a day, with no hint and no second chance. Afterwards you see How did everyone do? (No mistakes, 1-2 mistakes, 3+ mistakes, Got away), your daily streak and a countdown to the next word.

Two Players: one player writes a secret word (3-20 letters, up to 3 words) and can pick a category that is shown as a hint. With Play on this device you hand the phone over and the guessing starts at I'm ready. If the guesser finds the word they score 1 point, otherwise the writer does; roles swap every round and the score can be reset. With Send as a link the word is encrypted inside the link. Your friend guesses on their own device and can answer with Send a word back.

Each word scores 10 × number of different letters + 20 × tries left. In Streak a difficulty multiplier is added: Easy ×1, Normal ×1.5, Hard ×2. Hard words are longer and less common.

When a streak ends, its total goes to the weekly and all-time rankings. Word of the Day points have no multiplier and go to a separate daily table.

Reveal works only in Streak, once per word: it uncovers the hidden letter that appears most often in the word and does not count as a mistake. Three a day are free; after that it is optional with a short ad. If only one different letter is left, it will not open it.

Second chance: if your streak is at least 3 words, a window appears on your final mistake before the kite flies away. If you want, you watch a short ad, two bows come back and you get 2 more tries. Once per streak. Ads are always your choice; the game is never interrupted by them.

There are 13 kite designs: Classic plus one for each category, such as a tile flower for Cities or a tulip for Turkish cuisine. Guess 10 words in a category (in Streak or Word of the Day) to unlock its design; the one you pick in My Kites is worn by the kite in the game.

Statistics track words guessed, your longest streak, best streak score, flawless words (no mistakes and no hint), your daily streak and unlocked designs.