Ahorcabol v1.5.0 - Misery, now multilingual

Ahorcabol v1.5.0 ⚽

Ahorcabol got a redesign.

Not because football became less frustrating. Quite the opposite.

Now you can guess club names, lose lives and question your decisions in three languages.

What changed

• 🇦🇷 Español by default
• 🇺🇸 English
• Català
• Completely refreshed football / match-day interface
• New Ahorcabol branding and logo
• Redesigned goal and hangman scene
• The goal is now always there, even if you somehow manage to play perfectly
• Improved desktop and mobile layout
• Better keyboard feedback, including N / Ñ behavior
• Localized accessibility labels
• Improved goal-net animation
• Updated club names and country labels
• New README, screenshot and Donate section

What did not change

Six lives.

Hints still cost one.

Giving up is still available for tactical reasons.

Score and streak still survive in localStorage, apparently giving your failures historical significance.

And it is still plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript: no framework, no dependencies, no build process, no small nation required to compile it.

Play

Development / test build:

https://santiagorodriguez.com/Ahorcabol/

It may occasionally be ahead of this release. Blind faith belongs in transfer windows.

Previous version

The original Ahorcabol v1.0.0 remains preserved as a historical release.

Because pretending the first version never happened would be dishonest, even by football standards.

Ahorcabol v1.0.0

Ahorcabol v1.0.0 ⚽

The original version of Ahorcabol, preserved here before the v1.5 redesign.

Ahorcabol started as a lightweight football-themed hangman game for the browser: guess club names, try not to run out of lives, and discover that apparently football needed another way to disappoint you.

What was in v1.0

• Club names from Argentina, Spain, England, Germany, France, Portugal and Brazil
• Six lives per match
• Score and streak tracking with localStorage
• Physical keyboard and on-screen keyboard with Ñ
• Accent-insensitive guesses while preserving the original club name on screen
• Hints at the modest price of one life
• Give up option, for tactical reasons obviously
• Animated goal, ball, posts, net and confetti
• Lightweight sound effects with WebAudio
• Optional Spanish voice feedback with SpeechSynthesis
• Country filtering
• Built-in fallback team list
• Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• No framework, no dependencies, no build process

Scoring

• Correct letter: +100 per occurrence
• Win: +500 + 50 × remaining lives
• Hint: −1 life
• Giving up resets the streak

The original philosophy

Open index.html and play.

That was basically the deployment strategy.

If the browser refuses to load teamlist.json from a local file, the built-in fallback list keeps the game alive anyway.

Historical note

This release points to the original Ahorcabol codebase before the v1.5 visual redesign, multilingual interface and branding overhaul.

It is preserved because deleting your old work once you make something prettier is a suspiciously efficient way of rewriting history.

For the current version, see the latest Ahorcabol release.