is there anyway to replace java.IO

[nobody58]

hi I made this hang man game

but my teacher doesn't want me to use java.IO

or buffer reader

this is my code

import java.io.*;
public class HangmanGame{ 
 static BufferedReader br    
 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));  
 public static void main(String[] args) 
 throws IOException{    
     System.out.println("What is the word I'm thinking of? you got a guess limit of 12 (guess the word letter by letter)");      
     boolean playAgain;   
      
         playGame();     
         String input = br.readLine();  
        System.out.println("you lost"); 
    } 
    static void playGame() 
    throws IOException{   
        String word[] = {"apple", "orange", "computer", "jokes", "testing", "names", "laptop", "java", "bluej", "paper","stone","rock","world"};   
        char Guesses;   
        String Word, Save;   
        char[] Words, visible;   
        int letters, letterguesses;   
        Word = word[(int)(Math.random() * word.length)];   
       Save = Word;   
        for(char alphabet= 'a'; alphabet <= 'z'; alphabet++){  
            Word = Word.replace(alphabet,'*');  
        }   
        letters = Word.length(); 
        System.out.println("The word is " + letters + " letters long"); 
        System.out.println(Word);    
        Words = Save.toCharArray();   // saving the word   
        visible = Word.toCharArray(); // show the guesses letters in place of the stars *********  (e.g. c*m*u*t*r (computer))  
        letterguesses = 0;   
        while (letterguesses < 12 ) { 
            System.out.println();    
            System.out.print ("What is you guess? > "); 
            String i = br.readLine();      
            if (i.length() < 1){    
                i = "?";      
            }      
            Guesses = i.charAt(0);  
            boolean inWord = false;    
            for (int j = 0; j < Words.length; j++) { 
                if (Words[j] == Guesses){       
                    inWord = true;       
                    visible[j] = Guesses;      
                }     
            }    
            for (int j = 0; j < Words.length; j++) {   
                System.out.print(visible[j]);    
            }     
            System.out.println(); 
            if ((new String(visible)).indexOf('*') == -1){  
                break;    
            }   
            if (inWord == false){  
                System.out.println(" You've entered an incorrect wrong"); 
                letterguesses++;    
            }    
        }  
        if ((new String(visible)).equals(Save)){ 
            System.out.println("you win");  
{
System.exit(0);
}

        }    
        else{  
            System.out.println("The word I'm thinking of is: " + Save);  
        }  
    }
}

[RamyaSivakanth]

Use Scanner class for getting the inputs...so that you can Bypass io