# Hangman Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hangman-help/179693 "2009-12-02T04:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jovijunki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jovijunki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jovijunki)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hangman-help/179693/1 "2009-12-02T04:48:05Z")
How do I print the dashes and letters to represent the word to be guessed. The letters guessed by the player are properly put into the respective arrays. Whatever I try to do I either get all dashes back or the whole word back \_ \_ \_ \_ or f i s h, never f \_ \_ h My arrays are @correct\_guesses and @incorrect\_guesses How do I get it to say puts @correct\_guesses in the right blanks and if the guess is @incorrect\_guesses to leave it blank ---
**Author:** ![jovijunki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jovijunki](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jovijunki)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hangman-help/179693/2 "2009-12-02T05:10:37Z")
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Dylan R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Whatever I try to do I either get all dashes back or the whole word back > > \_ \_ \_ \_ or f i s h, never f \_ \_ h > > My arrays are @correct\_guesses and @incorrect\_guesses > > How do I get it to say puts @correct\_guesses in the right blanks and if > the guess is @incorrect\_guesses to leave it blank It might help us help you if you provide a sample of the code you are trying that doesn’t work. 🙂 Meanwhile, checkout: [http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000830](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000830)