Fun but flawed
This is a fun, creative twist on Hangman, as youre guessing words that are blanked out from news headlines. You get the headline, missing two words, and a tiny bit of context from the article at the bottom of the screen. Play is smooth and the interface easy to navigate. (No comment on the sound, since I play with my phone silenced.)
So why three stars? Two reasons: one, the context clues at the bottom of the screen often consist of two lines of redacted words, with only a couple useless words like "at" and "with" showing. That makes the context completely useless. The bigger problem, though, is that the game sometimes makes a proper name one of the blank headline words to guess. Since the stories come from all over the world, sometimes theres no way to know that name even if youre well-informed. It would be nice if the developers put in a dictionary so that, if a word isnt in an English dictionary, it isnt made into a blank. That would solve the proper name issue in most cases
Still, the game is fun and I play it now and then until a proper name ends my streak.
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Hangman ⓇⓈⓈ, v4.2