Games

Hangman

Guess the word one letter at a time. Play it together in a channel, where everyone helps, or on your own. There are two themes: Save the nest, where the cat climbs toward Sparrow's nest, and the classic hangman.

Getting started

Open Games, then Hangman, on the dashboard. From there you can start a live round, choose the theme and words, add your own words, choose who can play, turn on Leveling XP, and see the top players.

Put Hangman on a Games panel for solo games, or members can use /hangman play.

How to play

• The word shows as blanks, like _ _ _ _ _ _ _, with its category above it.
• Guess a letter: every place it's in the word fills in. Or guess the whole word.
• 6 lives. A wrong letter costs one, and so does a wrong guess at the whole word.
• Solve the word before the lives run out to win. Either way, the word is shown at the end.

Themes

• Save the nest: Sparrow sits in the nest at the top of a tree. With each wrong guess the cat climbs one branch higher. Solve it before the cat reaches the nest.
• Classic: the hangman you know, with a part of the figure added for each wrong guess.

Pick the server's theme under Game defaults. A live round can use the other one: pick it when you start the round.

Live rounds

The whole channel plays one word together. Start a round on the dashboard, or staff can use /hangman start. Members type one letter, or the whole word, in the chat. Any other message is left alone, so the chat can carry on.

• Sparrow reacts ✅ to a right guess and ❌ to a wrong one. 🔁 means the letter was already tried, and it doesn't count.
• Each member waits 5 seconds between guesses, so one person can't solve it alone. Pick another wait, orCustom for any number of seconds up to 120, or turn it off. ⏳ means they guessed too soon.
• Points: 10 for each new letter a member finds, and 30 for solving the word. The results list everyone's points.
• A round ends by itself after 10 minutes, and /hangman stop ends it early.
• Ping when it starts: pick up to 5 roles to ping when the round starts.
• The board shows the last 3 guesses and who made them. Each guess is deleted a moment after Sparrow marks it, so the chat stays clear (Sparrow needs Manage Messages). Turn off Delete guesses in live rounds under Game defaults to keep them, so anyone can look back at who guessed what.
• Keep the board at the bottom: when 5 messages are under the board, Sparrow posts it again at the bottom and deletes the old one. Roles aren't pinged again. It's off by default.

Scheduled rounds

In the Live round card, pick Schedule it. Choose the channel, words, theme and when it starts, then whether it runs once, every day or every week. Your scheduled rounds are listed under it, and you can remove one at any time.

• Heads up: Sparrow can post a message 5 minutes to 1 hour before the round, with the start time, the words and the XP prize. The roles you pick are pinged on the heads up and when the round starts. Write your own on the Messages tab, as an embed or Components V2, with placeholders like {time}, {category} and {prizes}. Reset to default brings back Sparrow's.
• Without Premium you can have 2 scheduled rounds, and a repeat runs 3 times. Premium allows 10, and repeats keep going.
• If Sparrow was offline at the start time and comes back more than 15 minutes late, that round is skipped.

Solo games

Press Hangman on a Games panel or use /hangman play. Only you see the game. First you pick the words, the theme and how you guess, then press Start. Guess from two letter menus (A to M and N to Z) and press Solve to type the whole word, or type a letter or the whole word in the chat, or either way. Typed guesses are deleted right away, unless you turn off Delete typed guesses. Under Solo games on the dashboard, choose the default way to guess and which of these members can pick. With nothing to pick, Play starts a game right away. You can also play in Sparrow's DMs, without XP or stats. Set Wait between solo games on the dashboard to choose how often a member can start one.

Words

Sparrow has its own list of about 440 everyday words in 8 categories: animals, food and drink, countries, nature, sports and games, jobs, around the house, and space and science. Add your own words on the Words tab, each with an optional category and hint. Then choose under Words to use: Sparrow's and your own, only Sparrow's, or only your own. Without Premium you can add 25 words. Premium allows 500.

Leveling XP

Hangman can give Leveling XP, through the same game XP setup as the other games.

• Live rounds follow the Live rounds give XP to choice, the same as Trivia: everyone by points, the winner only, the top 3, or everyone the same amount. The round shows the prizes.
• Solo wins give their own amount, 20 XP by default. Games in DMs give none.
• The game XP limit counts Hangman too.

Stats and leaderboard

Sparrow keeps each member's live rounds solved, letters found and rounds played, and their solo wins and losses. /hangman stats shows yours, or someone else's. /hangman leaderboard ranks members by live rounds solved. The Hangman page on the dashboard shows the top players and recent rounds, and admins can reset the totals.

Permissions

Hangman needs View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links, Attach Files (the picture), Add Reactions and Read Message History (to mark guesses). See Access & Permissions.

Free and Premium

Hangman is free. Premium raises your own words from 25 to 500, scheduled rounds from 2 to 10 with repeats that keep going, and the who can play lists. See Premium.

Commands

Want an overview instead? See the Hangman module page → · See every command →