Hangman Plus

A Skill Harbor house build: a game of hangman for one player, refereed by your own Muse, right in chat. Your assistant draws a word from an announced category, animals, jobs, geography, food, nature, objects, sports and leisure, sciences, and more, then seals the word, its category and its definition in a game state file before the first letter is proposed. You only ever see the mask, the category, your lives and the letters already tried. The sealed word never changes mid-game and is never revealed before the end, so the refereeing stays honest from the first letter to the last. The rules are plain and fixed. You have 7 lives: a letter that is not in the word costs 1 life, and a wrong guess at the whole word costs 2, while a correct letter reveals all of its positions at once. The word is always 5 to 9 letters, drawn from curated French and English lists and checked at the draw: a common word, in normalized form, with no proper names except in the dedicated category the player chooses on purpose. A proposal you already made is never counted twice, an invalid entry costs nothing and does not use up your turn, and guessing the whole word exactly wins at once, even on the first turn. The Plus is two bounded aids, each usable once per game. The definition token reveals the dictionary definition written into the state at the draw, one short sentence that never contains the word itself, for 15 points off a victory. The rescue letter token reveals one letter that is in the word and still hidden, chosen by a fixed rule, the unrevealed letter whose first occurrence sits furthest to the left, for 25 points off a victory. A victory scores 100 plus 10 per life left, minus the tokens spent, a defeat or an abandoned game scores 0, and your victory streak is persisted between games in your own data folder, alongside each game state and your score history. There are no prerequisites at all: no account, no connection, no group, nothing to set up, you just say play and a game starts. The listing is free under the Skill Harbor House License: free to use for yourself and in your own projects, all rights reserved, no redistribution or resale, and it is not open source. The files are plain Markdown you can read before installing, and the game data the skill creates, the sealed states and your scores, lives in a data folder you own, never inside the skill.