#!/usr/bin/env perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use constant LIMIT => 8;

my $word      = uc "hello";
my $wrong     = 0;
my $already   = '';
my $displayed;

while ($wrong < LIMIT) {
    $displayed = join '',
        map { m{ ^ [ $already ] $ }x ? $_ : '*' }
        split '', $word;
    
    if ($displayed eq $word) {
        say "Yeah, baby, yeah!";
        exit(0);
    }
    
    say "Word:           $displayed",
    say "Wrong guesses:  $wrong";
    print "Please guess a letter...  ";
    chomp(my $guess = <>);
    $already .= ($guess = quotemeta uc $guess);
    $wrong++ unless $word =~ m{ $guess }x;
}

die("Dude, it was '$word'\n");

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