My one junior high teacher is one of the "oh no, a dead body is too harsh for the students!" types, and so she was using "the flower game" - draw a flower with a limited number of petals, for each wrong guess erase one until the flower is gone. I managed to change her mind with "the shark game" - draw a shark with an open mouth and lots of teeth, and a ladder above his mouth with a man standing on top. For every wrong guess, erase a rung of the ladder, and then the man will get eaten. For some reason, she approved of this version, and the kids all seem to think it's funny.
