Hookman is simply a CLI version of the classic hangman game written in the Rust programming language. The name is inspired by the idea of using a rusty hook instead of a rope to build the hangman on.

The project is based off of this awesome tutorial series by dcode on YouTube. Check it out if you want an enjoyable intro to Rust.

The words data used for the game was derived from this English Word Frequency kaggle dataset.

You can configure and generate a different word set for your hookman games by configuring and running the python script (write_games_file.py).

Configuration options are:

• Word Data Source :: path of text file containing comma-separated words used for building the games text file
• Search Limit :: max rows to read through the CSV data source when adding to the games text file
• Minimum word length :: minumum character length for a word to be considered and added to the games text file

The script requires Python 3 (only tested using v3.9) to be available in your local environment with the pandas package installed.

To build games.txt, run the following from the repository's root directory:

python3 write_games_file.py