most effective way of making hangman?

[qwertyuiop]

i was just wondering how i could draw the hangman when the user enters a letter that is not in the word. Should i use a counter and an if structure and if the counter equals one then draw a part of the man? or is there a more effective way?

[TokenHerbz]

draw 5 different hang man pics.

Name them, Hangman1 / Hangman2: etc:

Call the hangman apporeriate for display.

[[Gandalf]]

You may want to try something like so:

code:

for i : 1 .. bodyPartsLeft         drawBodyPart(i) end for

[Reality Check]

I'd suggest using a for statement with the number of body parts your going to have. That would make things very easy.