Usually when I read articles about Hangman strategies I am annoyed at how thoughtless they are. But today I found one that was spot on. In fact, this article describes the exact algorithm I implemented in my Hanging with Friends Word Solver Cheat. The good news is my Hanging with Friends Word Solver Cheat implements this algorithm with each guess used to improve the suggestions at the next step.
So if you’re curious what my Hanging with Friends Word Solver Cheat does each time you use it, read this article here. A Better Strategy for Hangman
Many fail to note the vowel-free zone created by that last vowel being free. As a result, their Hanging with Friends cheat word solvers return the word “FAZES” (among others) as a possible word in the above diagram. But the last vowel is “FAZES” is an E and not the A. As a result, “FAZES” cannot be the word. With this last vowel given, there are exactly 382 possibles words for the word in the picture. However, if you omit the “vowel-free” fact in your Hanging with Friends word solver, you’ll find 1,489 words. That’s almost four times as many possibilities!