This was a fun game. How about extending Games::Guessword to disallow the a..z guess cheat...

use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Games::GuessWord;

package GamesGuesswordExtended;
{
  use Games::GuessWord;
  use base 'Games::GuessWord';
  
  sub new {
    my $class = shift();
    my $monk = shift();
    my $self = Games::GuessWord->new(words => [$monk]);
    
    bless($self,$class);
    return $self;
  }
  
  # 8-6-2003.  sub guess can be completely replaced with
  # the 'sub guess' found in the following node
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  #Re: Re: Hangmonks

  sub guess {
    my $self = shift;
    my $word = shift;
    chop($word);

    if ($self->chances == 0) {
      return undef;
    }
  
    #orginally, '$letter' was made from the shift().  I 
    #changed it to $word, and got '$letter' from the 1st
    #character in $word.  
    my $letter = substr($word,0,1);

    #Don't want to type $self->secret() twice.  
    my $secret = $self->secret();
    
    push (@{$self->{guesses}}, $letter);

    #If you correctly guess the name, then push the
    #entire thing to guesses.
    push (@{$self->{guesses}}, $word) if ($secret eq $word);

    if ($secret =~ /$letter/){
      $self->{score} += $self->chances + 1;
    } else {
      $self->{chances}--;
    }
  }
}

package main;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $ua->get("http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=158
+51");

die $response->code() if $response->code() != 200;

my $content = $response->content();

my $cblist = XMLin($content);

my @user = map $_->{username}, @{$cblist->{user}};
my $monk = $user[rand @user];

#my $g = Games::GuessWord->new(words => [$monk]);
my $g = new GamesGuesswordExtended($monk);
# Uncomment out the following for testing
       print "Secret: " . $g->secret . "\n";


my @guesses = $g->guesses;

do{
  print "Guesses Remaining:" . $g->chances . "\n";
  print  "The Monk is: " . $g->answer . "\n";
  print "What is your Guess?: ";
  my $response = <>;
  $g->guess($response);

  if ($g->won) {
    print "Yep, it was " . $g->secret . "...Great Guess!\n";
    exit;
  }

}until($g->chances<=0);
print "Sorry, the monk was: " . $g->secret . "\n"
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Updated: See comment dated 8-6-2003 in code near 'sub guess'

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Kristofer Hoch

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