{"id":28917,"date":"2012-07-12T02:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonbreakfreak.com\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2012-07-12T02:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:05:51","slug":"hardest-word-in-hangman-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/hardest-word-in-hangman-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardest word in hangman game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5284\" title=\"hangman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prisonbreakfreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hangman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"154\" \/>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hardest word to solve in Hangman?<\/p>\n<p>If you guessed some freak of linguistics like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153onomatopoeia,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dybbuk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153benzodiazepine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re barking up entirely the wrong  arboriform growth.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from Jon McLoone, director of business development for  Wolfram Research, the company behind popular mathematical modeling tool  Mathematica. McLoone was inspired to investigate the English language\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  hardest-to-guess word after his six-year-old daughter asked him how she  could beat her Hangman computer game.<\/p>\n<p>To find out, McLoone wrote a program that would play Hangman with all  90,000 words in the dictionary, attempting to guess each one in a  semi-random way similar to a method a good human player might use. In  total, he simulated some 15 million Hangman games, tying up several  office PCs for a weekend in the process.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Difficult,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for example, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very difficult to guess at all,  taking on average 3.3 wrong guesses per game &#8212; not even close to  losing. Contrary to his expectations, McLoone found that shorter <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5285\" title=\"hangman_300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prisonbreakfreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hangman_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/>words  were harder to guess than longer words, and the fewer pieces you use in  your Hangman drawing, the truer that gets.<\/p>\n<p>And the hardest of all? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jazz,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which topped the rankings in all the variations of the basic game he tried.<\/p>\n<p>McLoone also lists the top 25 hardest Hangman words,  according to his program. Words with double Zs or Fs, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153buzzer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153faff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rank high, but he suggests players pick longer words to fool  their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t beat \u00e2\u20ac\u0153powwowing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bowwowing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153huzzahing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for entertainment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he suggests..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hardest word to solve in Hangman? If you guessed some freak of linguistics like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153onomatopoeia,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dybbuk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153benzodiazepine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re barking up entirely the wrong arboriform growth. Take it from Jon McLoone, director of business development for Wolfram Research, the company behind popular mathematical modeling tool Mathematica. McLoone was inspired to investigate the English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3706,3685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}