body parts appear: each body part stored in its own layer ... revealing the layer reveals the body part.

word or phrase to guess

choose letters: letters of the alphabet laid out on screen, with clickable/hyperlinks around them
	-wrong
		-body part appears/hung
		-too many and lose the game
	-right
		-letter/s appear on word
		-reveal all you win

variables:			functions:
__________			__________
counter -- wrong guesses
game status0 not started, started, won, lost
words (array)
layes (array)

functions
_________
hideall() == hide all corpse layers
pickword() == pick a word update word gui with proper number of dashes
resetcounter() == reset the "wrong guesses counter"
startgame() ==  run hideall, run pickword, run resetcounter
tryletter() == run wrongguess()
			- body part appears/hung
			- too many and lose the game
		run correctguess()
			- letter/s apepar on word
			- reveal all you win
wrongguess()
correctguess()
wonthegame()
lostthegame()


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function hideall()
{
//go through each position of the layerlist array and hide that layer
for (i=0; i<layerlist.length; i++){
	document.getElementById(layerlist[i]).style.visibility = 'hidden'
	alert('pause')

function runlayertest()



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var thecounter = 0 //number of wrong guesses
var thestatus = 'notstarted' //status of game
var theword 	//current word being guessed


wordlist = new Array
wordlist[0] = 'puck'
wordlist[1] = 'helmet'
wordlist[2] = 'birdie'
wordlist[3] = 'pigskin'
wordlist[4] = 'stone'
wordlist[5] = 'paddle'
wordlist[6] = 'discus'
wordlist[7] = 'javelin'
wordlist[8] = 'oar'
wordlist[9] = 'rigger'
wordlist[10] = 'catamaran'

function pickword(){
//pick a random word from wordlist array
temp = Math.floor(Math.random()*wordlist.length)

//store word in memory
theword = wordlist[temp]

//put proper number of dashes in word box
numberofchars = theword.length

document.theform.wordbox.value = ''
for(i=0; i<numberofchars; i++){
	document.theform.wordbox.value = document.theform.wordbox.value + '-'
	alert('pause')
	}
}

function resetcounter(){
	thecounter = 0
	document.theform.counterbox.value = 0
	}

function startgame(){
gamestatus = "started"
hideall()
resetcounter()
pickword()
}

function tryletter(current){
//is letter contained in 'theword'

if(thestatus == 'started')
{
	if(theword.indexOf(current)!= -1)
	{
	//if so:
	//	1. reveal All occurrences of the letter in the word
		
	temp = ''
	currentbox = document.theform.wordbox.value
	
	for(i=0; i<theword.length; i++)
		{
		if(theword.charAt(i) == current)
			{ temp = temp+current }
		else
			{ temp = temp + currentbox.charAt(i) }
		}
	document.theform.wordbox.value = temp


	//	2. are any dashes left in the game? if not, they won

	if(document.theform.wordbox.value.indexOf('-') == -1)
	{
	thestatus="won"
	alert('Yay, you guessed' + theword +'and won the game')
	}
	
	else
		{
	//or not:
	//	1. reveal a layer, increase the counter
	document.getElementById(layerlist[thecounter]).style.visiblity = 'visible'
	thecounter++
	document.theform.counterbox.value = thecounter

	// 	2. if counter = 10 they lost
		if(thecounter == 10)
		{
		thestatus = "lost"
		alert('sorry you lost')
		}
	}
else
{
	alert('Sorry you you have to restart the game to play.)'
}



}