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Welcome to Buddy's Bar, where the drink of the house is the Buddy Cocktail! Try your best insults, puns, and witty things to say at the bar. But be realistic, you'll think of the best comebacks 2 days later...

How to Play

Just like "Hangman".Try to guess the complete puzzle using as few letter guesses as possible. You can use the mouse to select letters from the game keyboard, or simply use your normal keyboard to type letter guesses. Right now, there is no time limit or limit to the number of rounds you can play.

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Where did the puzzles come from?

Several of the puns in this game were used with permission from punoftheday.com. Team Zemlet also solicited lots of puns, insults, and pickup lines from lots of different locations. Some insults were taken from a 1965 joke book called "2000 Insults For All Occasions" Compiled by Louis A Safian.

Making of the Game

Buddy Cocktail is a Java Applet that was written using the Java jdk1.1.8. A data file stores the puns, which is parsed at startup time into a Vector class of Strings, of which an entry is randomly selected each round. The data file loader uses Http to read in the file, because Java applets are prohibited from doing file I/O, but they are permitted to make HTTP transactions using the java.net.URL package.
Each time a puzzle is picked, it checks to make sure it's not identical to the previous one, but no marked list is maintained, so its possible to see a puzzle twice, but not immediately after you've solved it. For fast loading, just about everything in the game is drawn except the background gif image using the Graphics class methods setColor, fillColor, fillRoundRect, setFont, and drawString.