Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python , 4th Edition

9EXTENDING HANGMAN

Now that you’ve created a basic Hangman game, let’s look at some ways you can extend it with new features. In this chapter, you’ll add multiple word sets for the computer to draw from and the ability to change the game’s difficulty level.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER

• The dictionary data type

• Key-value pairs

• The keys() and values() dictionary methods

• Multiple variable assignment

Adding More Guesses

After you’ve played Hangman a few times, you might think that six guesses isn’t enough for the player to get many of the words. You can easily give them more guesses by adding more multiline strings to the HANGMAN_PICS ...