A nice article on Hangman Strategies

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

Scramble with Friends Cheaters Site Launch

I decided to try Zynga’s newest word game, Scramble with Friends. It was more addictive than I thought it would be. Of course my mind immediately went to figuring out how to win every time (aka cheating!). After some thought and hunting around the internets, I came up with an algorithm to find all the top words. But since Scramble with Friends is a timed game, it needed to be fast, and it needed to be user friendly. Check out what I came up with. It’s still getting better as time permits. The graphics need some work!

Scramble with Friends Cheaters

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (8 Letters)

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND only 4 strikes to guess the remaining 7 letters. In hangman, 8 letter words are often easy to guess since there are so many letters you can sometimes just get lucky and guess a correct letter and get another clue. But Zynga’s strike rule is extremely punitive for 8 letter words. As a result, 8 letter words are extremely difficult to guess, IF you can pick a good word like the ones below.

You’ll note that we finally see an appearance of my top score I give to a word. There are three words tied for the honors of hardest to guess Hanging with Friends words

So here are my top 14 Eight Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word Score***
fuddling 100
puzzling 100
vuggiest 100
buggiest 76
burriest 76
cuttling 76
huddling 76
puckered 76
ruddiest 76
rumpling 76
shammers 76
shudders 76
thumbing 76
trucking 76

** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

 

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (7 Letters)

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 5 strikes to guess the remaining 6 letters

So here are my top 12 Seven Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word Score***
bucking 96
jazzing 96
yucking 96
buzzing 81
ducking 81
fulling 81
huffing 81
jelling 81
mucking 81
waxwing 81
yeuking 81
yukking 81

** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

 

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (6 Letters)

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 6 strikes to guess the remaining 5 letters

So here are my top 9 Six Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word Score***
waived 84
baking 70
buzzed 70
jazzed 70
jogged 70
joking 70
jugged 70
willed 70
yucked 70

 
** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

 

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (5 Letters)

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 7 strikes to guess the remaining 4 letters

So here are my top 26 Five Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word Score***
fazes 82
baked 68
cited 68
japes 68
waves 68
yowes 68
zaxes 68
babes 55
bayed 55
coxes 55
faves 55
foxed 55
foxes 55
fykes 55
hajes 55
hazed 55
hiker 55
howes 55
jakes 55
jiver 55
joker 55
jokes 55
joyed 55
piped 55
waxes 55
wizes 55

You can’t cheat using my  Hanging with Friends Word Solver  to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.

 

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (4 Letters)

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

In hangman, 4 letter words are usually harder to guess than longer words. But since Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 8 strikes to guess the remaining 3 letters, they actually often become quite easy to guess. And of course you can always use 9 strikes with the Revive lifeline or narrow it more with the 4 Suspects lifeline.

So here are my top 12 Four Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word Score**
kafs 73
fyke 59
hawk 59
jake 59
jape 59
jars 59
joke 59
lacs 59
mice 59
mime 59
wave 59
wite 59

You can’t cheat using my  Hanging with Friends Word Solver  to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.

 

Hanging with Friends Cheat

The best Hanging with Friends Cheat strategy site!


I discovered there are some actual Hanging with Friends Cheat that is definitely not cool. Just beware that some people can hack their device to do some real cheating. That is most definitely not strategy. So I don’t think what we do here is a Hanging with Friends Cheat since we are just using data to inform our strategy. But if you find a way to see the word without even having to guess, that is a real Hanging with Friends Cheat that I cannot support.

 

Check out our Hanging with Friends Word Builder and Word Generator for the highest points and hardest to guess works.

Check out our Hanging with Friends Word Solver for the information you need to inform your guesses.

But don’t use Hanging with Friends Cheat that isn’t cool.

Hanging with Friends Cheat isn’t cool, but Hanging with Friends Strategy like what we have here just keeps it informed and fun.

Bad Hanging with Friends Cheat Sites versus Hanging with Friends Strategy

The tagline for my site says, “It’s not cheating–it’s strategy.” So why is this not cheating? In my opinion cheating is cheap, uninformed and thoughtless. On this Hanging with Friends site, there was lots of thought, strategy and smarts put into the output.

As an example, many online Hanging with Friends cheat sites were clearly created by someone who doesn’t even play Hanging with Friends, or they didn’t think much about it if they do. Many assumed that Hanging with Friends is just a hangman game. In fact, there are many distinctions between Hanging with Friends and Hangman. The Hanging with Friends word solvers and other Hanging with Friends cheats on those sites often fail to make note of this. Some Hanging with Friends cheats have inflated solver dictionaries muddling their (probably thoughtless) strategy for solving words.

Moreover, many Hanging with Friends word solvers miss an important distinction. In Hanging with Friends, the last vowel is free. As Zynga pointed out in an early Facebook post, this has some implications. They drew a nice picture illustrating it.

Free Vowel and the Vowel-Free ZoneMany 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!

If you want a quality Hanging with Friends word solver that’s a good strategy, I suggest you give mine a try. Some argue that it’s still cheating. But they are usually just mad because they got out cheated–I mean out strategized! Haha! In any event, enjoy Hanging with Friends and never cheat.

 

Conjure is coming!

The new Hanging with Friends builder lifeline Conjure allows you to buy a blank tile. It’s amazingly powerful for finding even harder to guess words. Since you must always pay for it, it makes no sense to use it just to find words with higher points. The goal should be to find harder to guess words. I’m working on implementing it here soon. I’ve got a beta version running on my local test site and I’ll get it up soon.

Conjure LifelineConjure Coming Soon!

In the mean time, enjoy my Hanging with Friends Word Generator/Word Builder to help beat cheaters and find hard to guess Hanging with Friends words every time.

More posts coming soon. I’m very busy this time of year, but I’ve got lots of good stuff in store.