why does this give me an error?

[Genisis]

im trying to read one letter form a data file and it gives me the error at
"alpha.read (char lettersguessed [x], 0, 25);"

[code]// The "Guessing" class.
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;
import java.io.*;

public class Guessing
{
static Console c; // The output console

public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException
{
c = new Console ();
// declares variables and data files
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader (new FileReader ("word.txt"));
int sets = 1, ran, many, wrong = 0, fcount = 0, temp2, choice = 0, tried = 0;
String words [], temp, word;
char gword, no = 'n', yes = 'y', fword [], guessed [], lettersguessed [];
words = new String [sets];


for (int x = 0 ; x < sets ; x++)
{
words [x] = input.readLine ();
}
input.close ();

do
{
// selects a random word and finds its length and creates arrays
ran = (int) (Math.random () * sets);
word = words [ran];
many = word.length ();
fword = new char [many];
guessed = new char [26];
lettersguessed = new char [26];
c.println ("What would you like to do? 1. Instructions 2. Game 3. Quit");
choice = c.readInt ();
c.clear ();
switch (choice)
{
// displays a set of instructions
case 1:
{
break;
}
// starts the game
case 2:
{
tried++;
// makes the word that they replace blank and same with the letters that they guess

BufferedReader alpha = new BufferedReader (new FileReader ("alphabet.txt"));
for (int x = 0 ; x < many ; x++)
{
fword [x] = '_';
}
for (int x = 0 ; x < 26 ; x++)
{
guessed [x] = ' ';
alpha.read (char lettersguessed [x], 0, 25);
}
alpha.close ();
do
{
// displays letters
c.setCursor (1, 14);
for (int x = 0 ; x < 26 ; x++)
{
c.print (lettersguessed [x] + " ");
}
c.println ("");

// tells them how many letters are in the word and display the amount with _'s
c.setCursor (2, 24);
c.println ("The word has " + many + " letters in it");
c.setCursor (3, (65 - many) / 2);

for (int y = 0 ; y < many ; y++)
{
c.print (fword [y] + " ");
}
c.println ("");
c.setCursor (4, 27);

c.println ("please guess a letter");
gword = c.getChar ();

// doesnt let them choose the same letter

for (int y = 0 ; y < 26 ; y++)
{
if (guessed [y] == gword)
{
c.clear ();
//if they have chosen this letter before then it will ask them
//for a new letter
do
{
c.setCursor (1, 22);
c.println ("You already chose " + gword + ", choose agian");
c.setCursor (3, (65 - many) / 2);

for (int x = 0 ; x < many ; x++)
{
c.print (fword [x] + " ");
}
c.println ("");
gword = c.getChar ();
c.clear ();
}
while (guessed [y] == gword);
y = 0;

}
else
{
// if they havent chosen this letter it stores it into an array
if (guessed [y] == ' ')
{
c.clear ();
c.setCursor (3, (65 - many) / 2);
for (int x = 0 ; x < many ; x++)
{
c.print (fword [x] + " ");
}
c.println ("");
guessed [y] = gword;
break;
}

}

}
// tells the user that that letter is not in that word
if (word.indexOf (gword) < 0)
{

wrong++;
c.setCursor (2, 12);
c.println ("sorry but thats not in the word you have " + (6 - wrong) + " chances left");
try
{
Thread.sleep (2500);
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
System.out.println (e);
}
c.clear ();

}
else
{
if (word.indexOf (gword) >= 0)
{
// replaces underscores with letters that were right
for (int x = 0 ; x < many ; x++)
{
if (word.charAt (x) == gword)
{
fword [x] = gword;
}
}

c.clear ();
}
}
// adds up the letters in the word
fcount = 0;
for (int a = 0 ; a < many ; a++)
{
if (fword [a] != '_')
{
fcount++;
}
}
//if fcount they are the same as the number of letters
//in the random word then it will exit this loop
if (fcount / many >= 1)
{
break;
}
for (int x = 0 ; x < 26 ; x++)
{

}

}
while (wrong < 6);


c.clear ();
// tells them that they have guessed the word and tells them the word
if (fcount / many >= 1)
{
c.setCursor (1, 18);
c.println ("Congradulations you guessed the word!");
}
else
// tells them that the they havent got the word complete and tells them the word
{
c.println ("sorry but you lose the word was");
}
c.setCursor (2, (65 - many) / 2);
c.println (word);

try
{
Thread.sleep (2500);
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
System.out.println (e);
}
c.clear ();

// asks them if they would like to play the game agian
do
{
c.println ("would you like to try agian? y/n");
yes = c.getChar ();

// asks them if they are sure
if (yes == 'y' || yes == 'Y')
{
c.println ("are you sure you want to play agian? y/n");
no = c.getChar ();
c.clear ();
}
else
{
if (yes == 'n' || yes == 'N')
{
c.println ("are you sure you want to quit? y/n");
no = c.getChar ();
c.clear ();
}
}

}
while (no == 'n' || no == 'N')
;
// resets exit clauses
fcount = 0;
wrong = 0;
c.clear ();
break;
}
//quits the game
case 3:
{
break;
}
}
if (choice == 3)
{
break;
}
}

while (yes == 'y' || yes == 'Y')
;
c.clear ();
// thanks them for using the game
if (tried > 0)
{
c.println ("Thank you for playing this guessing the word game");
}
else
{
c.println ("What? to good for the game?");
}

} // main method
} // Blahj class

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you'll need the data files so you dont get more errors so i attached them for who ever can help me thanks