Hangman

[eyedrop]

How the hell did Hangman develop into a childrens game? The whole premis of it sounds somewhat macabre for a childsgame.



Hangman is the game where you guess letters of a word and for every wrong guess you draw another line on a drawing of a man getting hanged.

[RedAnarchist]

Hangman has it's origins in Victorian society, and people probably didn't see it that way back then. Public executions used to be quite popular events, although I think they weren't as common in the Victorian times as they had been before then.

[Tyrlop]

thats not a new game, i use to play this with my littlebrothers

[Dimentio]

How the hell did Hangman develop into a childrens game? The whole premis of it sounds somewhat macabre for a childsgame.



Hangman is the game where you guess letters of a word and for every wrong guess you draw another line on a drawing of a man getting hanged.

I have heard that football developed from children in London kicking around the heads of those who were executed by decapitation originally. :lol:

[Jazzratt]

How the hell did Hangman develop into a childrens game? The whole premis of it sounds somewhat macabre for a childsgame.

I'd never even thought about this. RA's explanation sounds plausible since a lot of traditional children's stuff comes from a time when we clearly gave less of a shit (imagine "ring-a-ring o' roses" the delightful rhyme and dance about dying of some horrific disease if someone tried to make it popular now).

Apparently one of the first times I played hangman with my parents as a kid I used the word "revolution" as the one to guess. Fucking hardcore, me.

[Sam_b]

imagine "ring-a-ring o' roses" the delightful rhyme and dance about dying of some horrific disease if someone tried to make it popular now

Apparently this is one of the QI-style urban myths, but I could easily be wrong.
Being a pedantic bastard my favourite Hangman was always "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", just for the sheer length of it.

[Angry Young Man]

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[NecroCommie]

We played hangman in elementary school. It was awesome! :thumbup:

[Jazzratt]

Apparently this is one of the QI-style urban myths, but I could easily be wrong.

I'll have to look into that. I always assumed it was correct since it sounded plausible but perhaps not...


Being a pedantic bastard my favourite Hangman was always "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", just for the sheer length of it.
:lol:

[Il Medico]

Me and my friends used specific categories, like songs. Being an asshole, when ever we had songs I always used Nel blu di pinto di blu.(or another foreign song) No one ever guessed it, ever.

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