I had no idea that this game would be so popular!  Despite the crappy graphics, it's been referred half a dozen times, and received almost 300 unique hits in the last 24-hours.  Pretty amazing!

Here's the link to Hangman.  Give it a try.  Here's the original Hangman announcement.

There have been a few updates to the original program, including:

• Includes the definition of the word; calls a .NET web service that parses a web response from Dictionary.com (please let me know if you find problems!)
• Tracks statistics (e.g. total times played, won, and lost); so far we lose a LOT more 
• Frees the man from the noose if you win

Yes, they're all silly little updates, but hopefully it increases the enjoyment of the game.

Here are a couple screen shots with the updates.  The first one shows what happens when you die, err, lose.

This next one shows what happens when you win.  Doesn't that look a lot more pleasant?

This sure is fun stuff to play with.  Now that I feel more comfortable with Silverlight and WPF, there are all kinds of things I'd like to write.  It's a shame I'm not more artistic.

Anyone out there have some mad artistic skills that would like to team up with me?

Best of luck!

Unfortunately I don't have enough time at the moment to write-up a full post that outlines how this works (we have friends coming over for dinner), but I wanted to at least share my very first attempt at a Silverlight and WPF web application.

Check out Hangman!

It's a pretty slick (albeit graphically retarded) Silverlight application.  It uses Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (for Windows), and I built it on the work I did devising a strategy to (consistently) win hangman.

I plan to eventually write a post explaining exactly how I setup my development environment, how the technology within this application functions, and I'll post the source code (once I refactor it).

What do you think?  Have you built any Silverlight applications?