Hang Man Bible

Hangman Bible is a religious-themed word-guessing game released for Macintosh and Windows on February 8, 2005 by Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Pitched as a non-violent, educational family game suitable for Sunday Schools, it pairs the familiar hangman mechanic with colourful graphics, digitised sounds, and Bible-derived word categories.

Gameplay

Mechanics are the classic hangman loop: the program selects a word or phrase from a chosen category and the player guesses letters one at a time, racing the gallows drawing as wrong guesses accumulate. The game's hook is its content rather than a novel rule set, with a deliberate emphasis on ease-of-use that targets younger and family audiences.

Educational Layer

What sets Hangman Bible apart from generic hangman is the contextual information it surfaces after each round. When a word is revealed, the program often displays related background material: choose the Saints category and Hangman Bible will display information about the Saint just guessed, turning each completed puzzle into a small catechetical moment.

Word Categories

The shipped categories span Apostles, Bible Stories, Books of the Old Testament, Books of the New Testament, Christmas, Jewish Months, Prophets in the Koran, Prophets in the Old Testament, Religious Words and Phrases, Sacraments, Saints, and Women in the Bible, among others. The cross-tradition coverage (Old and New Testament plus Koranic prophets) is unusually broad for the genre.

Distribution

Hangman Bible was distributed from winograd.com as HangmanBible.sit for Macintosh and HangmanBible-Setup.exe for Windows, with secure online registration. The press release accompanying the Info-Mac upload includes screenshot URLs at winograd.com/images/hb1.jpg and hb2.jpg, and Ken Winograd is also credited on Macintosh Garden as the author of the original 1985 HangMan for classic Mac.