A fun
game, wherein
young children are taught about the
horrible consequences for
ignorance in the strict,
intellectual society in present-day
America. In the game, the
player has to figure out a secret word or phrase, given only the number of letters it has, and sometimes the
category under which it falls. For example, if the secret phrase were
hangman, they would see only
-------, and possibly told that the category was
fun games. Then, the player(s) have to
guess the letters in the word,
one at a time. For each letter guessed, if it is part of the phrase, then all the occurences of the letter are written in; if they guessed
a, they would now see
-a---a-.
However, if they guess wrong, each wrong guess results in part of the gallows being built. When the gallows are finished, each wrong guess results in the materialization of a single part of an innocent man inside the gallows, with a noose around his neck. When his entire body has appeared, its weight pulls the noose tightly around his neck to the point where he either suffocates, or his neck snaps. In either case, the man dies, and, even worse, the player fails to earn a point for that round.
However, if the entire puzzle is solved before the man materializes, he is set free and the player gets a point. A dead man or a point gained constitutes the end of a single round. The winner of the game, after a number of such rounds, is the one with the most points, and thus the least dead people on his or her conscience.