Games are very important for people, since the Ancient World, contributing at their entertainment. Greeks invented first games in antiquity and they are those who imagined the Olimpic Games, too. Those games were held in honor of living persons, of the gods, some as offerings of thanksgiving.
With the passing of time, people created a lot of games. Nowadays, for example, they are playing on the computer killing monsters and trying to conquer land in order to build towns and capitals.
Even if many children and adults are playing on the computer a very prevalent game is still "Hangman". It was invented sometime during the Victorian era. It was mentioned for the first time in Alice Bertha Gomme’s “Traditional Games” in 1894 and it was named “Birds, beasts and fishes”. Later, in other sources, the games was called "Gallows", "The Game of Hangin” or "Hanger".
Like any other game it has rules but they are very simple. A player writes down the first and last letters for an object, animal or plant, and the other player needs to guess the other letters in between.
We all know this game because we were used to playing it when we were kids and it is a pun that improves thinking and enriches vocabulary. It’s rules are very simple and it is a challenge for each of us to check up our knowledge in a language.
Now you can play hangman online too.
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