Movies hangman
85 film and cinema words, 6 wrong guesses, and a difficulty rating shown at the end of every round.
Chalking the board…
Playing this list
This list is film vocabulary rather than film titles, which makes it play far better. Titles are unfair in hangman because a guesser either knows the film or has no route in at all, and the spelling gives them nothing.
Craft words, on the other hand, reward pattern recognition. Cinematography is fourteen letters and lands as medium, because once the vowels appear the ending is almost forced.
For a film-night round, mix ten of these with the genre words and let the guesser use what they know about how films are made. It plays as trivia and hangman at the same time.
The full list, with every clue and score, is on the movies word list. If you want to set a word for somebody else instead, the create page turns any word into a shareable game.
What this list does to a guesser
Measured across all 85 words, this list runs 0.6 points easier than the site average. The eight letters most people open with — E, T, A, O, I, N, S, R — uncover about 65% of a typical film and cinema word, and the single most productive opening letter here is E, which appears 78 times. The least useful of the eight is S at 40 appearances, so spending an early guess on it in this category is usually wasted.
Every word here contains at least one of those eight letters, which is why this category rarely produces a round that collapses in the first three guesses.
Rare letters do turn up: K, V, Q, W and others appear across the list, and a word carrying one is usually the one that beats you. How the rating weighs that is set out on how difficulty is scored.
- flashback · 8.3 · 9 letters · 33% common cover
- multiplex · 7.4 · 9 letters · 33% common cover
- backlot · 7.3 · 7 letters · 43% common cover
- teaser · -1.5 · 6 letters · 100% common cover
- animation · -1.3 · 9 letters · 89% common cover
- nomination · -1.2 · 10 letters · 90% common cover
Questions
How do you play movies hangman?
Guess a letter. If it appears in the word it fills in every position it occupies; if not, another part of the figure is drawn. You get 6 wrong guesses. The clue button is there if you want it and costs nothing.
How many words are in this game?
85, drawn from the movies list. 49 rate easy, 29 medium and 7 hard, and the rating for each word is shown once the round ends.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
It is free and there is no account. The game runs in your browser and your streak is stored on your own device, so nothing is sent to a server.