is this possible

Hello to all,

I'm taking a Java class in high school and my teacher told us to create a word game type program with the basic principles of hangman. My problem is that I want the answer to be a string that is updated with the correct answers and for the incorrect answers to go to another. I am not sure how to do this except with a whole lot of if statements, except if I could modify what is in the index of the string. I may have lost people in my poorly worded description, and probably bad spelling, but if you can help it would be nice.

[556 byte] By [turkeya] at [2007-10-2 7:40:52]