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Start your free trialCourtney Pope
Courses Plus Student 1,384 PointsCorrect answers keep giving me a strike
import random words = [ 'apple', 'bananna', 'orange', 'pear', 'strawberry', 'coconut', 'melon' ]
while True: start = input("Press Enter/Return to start or enter q to Quit") if start.lower() == 'q': break secret_word = random.choice(words) bad_guesses = [] good_guesses = []
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
for letter in secret_word:
if letter in good_guesses:
print(letter, end='')
else:
print('_', end='')
print('')
print('Strikes {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
print('')
guess = input('Guess a letter: ').lower()
if len(guess) != 1:
print("You can only guess a single letter: ")
continue
elif guess in bad_guesses or guess in good_guesses:
print("You've already guessed that letter!")
continue
elif not guess.isalpha():
print("You can only guess letters!! ")
continue
if guess in secret_word:
good_guesses.append(guess)
if len(good_guesses) == len(list(secret_word)):
print("Yayyyyy!!!, You got it!!...The word was {} ".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didnt get it, The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
2 Answers
Kent ร svang
18,823 PointsThe last if-statement should be indented 4 spaces, since it's not - the else-statement beneath it is executing every round where len(good_guesses) != len(secret_word). When you indent said if-statement the else-statement gets connected with the second last if-statement and thus only execute when if guess != secret_word, giving the appropriate amount of strikes.
Despite my (perhaps) confusing explanation, I hope this explained to you the problem. Nonetheless, here is how your code should look (Check the comments to see exactly where:
import random
words = [ 'apple', 'bananna', 'orange', 'pear', 'strawberry', 'coconut', 'melon' ]
while True:
start = input("Press Enter/Return to start or enter q to Quit")
if start.lower() == 'q':
break
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses = []
good_guesses = []
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
for letter in secret_word:
if letter in good_guesses:
print(letter, end='')
else:
print('_', end='')
print('')
print('Strikes {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
print('')
guess = input('Guess a letter: ').lower()
if len(guess) != 1:
print("You can only guess a single letter: ")
continue
elif guess in bad_guesses or guess in good_guesses:
print("You've already guessed that letter!")
continue
elif not guess.isalpha():
print("You can only guess letters!! ")
continue
if guess in secret_word:
good_guesses.append(guess)
# The if-block below wasn't indented. So whenever the length of good_guesses wasn't the same as
# the length of secret_word, the else-block beneath it executed.
if len(good_guesses) == len(list(secret_word)):
print("Yayyyyy!!!, You got it!!...The word was {} ".format(secret_word))
break
# This block executed every len(good_guesses) != len(secret_word)
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didnt get it, The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
I hope this helped. Good luck.
Jeff Mercuri
1,086 PointsI'm not experienced enough to know what this means but I noticed a colon in your code that isn't in mine (Kenneth's).
yours: if len(guess) != 1: print("You can only guess a single letter: ")
mine (Kenneth's): if len(guess) != 1: print("You can only guess a single letter!") continue
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsAlexander Davison
65,469 PointsWhat's the error your getting?
This might help a lot :)
Good luck, Alex