Hangman Duel: Word Rescue

Hangman, rebuilt for two players. You choose the word your opponent has to crack — then you have to survive the one they chose for you. In a duel every guess is settled on our servers, and the secret word is never sent to the other player's phone, so nobody can peek at the answer.

FOUR WAYS TO PLAY

Single Player — 9 word categories (Animals, Food, Home, Nature, City, Family, Body, Sport, Abstract) plus a Mixed pile that draws from all of them. Works fully offline, no connection needed.

Online 1v1 — Join the queue and get matched in seconds. If no human opponent turns up within 15 seconds we pair you with a bot, so you never sit in an empty lobby. Bot matches don't move your rating or pay coins.

Play by Invite — Generate a 6-character code, share it, and duel a friend privately.

Word of the Day — One word per language, the same for every player worldwide, changing at 00:00 UTC. Solve it daily and keep your streak alive.

5 ANIMATED THEMES

Six wrong guesses and the round is over — but no two endings look the same:
• Classic — the gallows, redrawn
• Space — the oxygen runs out
• Ship — the water rises
• Fire — the floors collapse
• Cave — the torch dims

Every theme is unlocked from the start. Nothing to grind for, nothing to buy.

MATCHES ARE LIVE, NOT PLAY-BY-MAIL

30 seconds to make a guess, 20 seconds to pick a word for your opponent. The clocks run on the server, so a stalling rival simply hands you the win. Optional notifications tell you when it's your turn.

RANKED PLAY

Every human-vs-human duel moves your rating up or down, and the result screen shows exactly how much. Weekly and all-time leaderboards refresh hourly. 10 achievements to unlock, each paying out coins.

20 LANGUAGES

English, Turkish, Arabic, German, Spanish, Persian, French, Hausa, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Filipino, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Yoruba — more than 11,000 words in total.

Each language gets a real on-screen keyboard for its own script, with right-to-left layouts for Arabic, Persian and Urdu, Hangul input for Korean, and correct handling of the Turkish dotted and dotless i.

LIVES

You start with 5. A solo defeat or an online match costs one, and one life comes back every 3 hours — timed on the server, not on your device clock. Out of lives? If you are not Premium, watch a short video fo