Escalation: Hangman

Scenes of death depicted in the Baltimore Motor Vehicle Administration office while Meredith and I played hangman:¹

• The traditional structure: four lines (as seen here)
• The structure drawn on a small box
• The structure drawn above a trapdoor
• The structure drawn above a trapdoor, with an executioner present
• The structure drawn with a crowd in the foreground
• A guillotine (complete with basket)²
• An electric chair
• A firing squad (with brick wall)
• A submerged car
• Armageddon (four stick-figure horsemen, present and accounted for)
• A pirate ship (with plank and sharks circling below)
• The rancor pit in Jabba’s palace
• Train tracks and locomotive
• A tsunami
• A rocket ship being pulled into a star
• The world of Super Mario Bros.

Most difficult words used during the game:

• Meredith: adrenoleukodystrophy
• Me: choclate milk

Yeah, I mispelled “chocolate.” I’m not sure if that round was harder for me or Meri.

Amazingly, the only time one of the stick-figures died was when I correctly solved a word, and Meredith killed off my guy anyway.

1. In our defense, we spent four hours waiting for plates/registration and a driver’s license (Return to post)
2. At this stage, we began to take the concept a little too far (Return to post)