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Can I change my word in the middle of the game?
That's pretty devious, but why not? (If you can think of another word that fits all the hints so far.)
What if I click on the wrong letter?
Click again to clear it.
What if I click "No more H's", and there was another H?
Sorry, no undo yet. You can "Play Again" if you let the computer win by filling every square with the current letter.
 Why use Web Start? Wouldn't Flash be better?
Maybe yes. Flash is already installed on most browsers, and it would have
been easy to build a much more enticing interface in Flash. However, it would have been trickier to implement the meat behind the "Poindexter" and "Einstein" algorithms.
And once Web Start installs the substantial download required for Einstein's
dictionary attack, it stays on the client machine. Flash downloads may or may not be cached. [Is this right? What control do users have over Flash caching?]
Why use Web Start? Wouldn't JSP be better?
Maybe yes. A server-side implementation would avoid the initial download
and run on any browser. On the other hand, the server would be busy building and sending every "card" of every game of every client.
LINKS
Look-and-Feel courtesy of Karsten Lentzsch at JGoodies.
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You can change your "opponent" whenever you want, by clicking on
the picture.
The program counts wrong guesses, but it doesn't actually draw a
hangman picture.
