Number Guessing Game - Allowing Too Many Guesses

Question

I'm working on the initial steps of my number guessing game. I have it limited to 5 attempts, but it is allowing unlimited attempts and I can't quite figure out why. Here is my code:

import time
import random

game_solution = random.randint(1, 20)
attempt = 5

print("Welcome to Lindsey's Guessing Game!")
time.sleep(1)

play_game = input("Would you like to play? Yes or No  ")

if play_game.lower() == "no":
    print("Have a great day!")

if play_game.lower() == "yes":
    print("Please choose a number between 1 and 20.  ")
    while attempt > 0:
        player_guess = int(input(""))

        if player_guess < game_solution:
            print("Nope, too low! Guess again:  ")

        elif player_guess > game_solution:
            print("Nope, too high! Guess again:  ")

        else:
            print("You guessed it! Nice job!")
            play_again = input("Would you like to play again?  ")

    while attempt < 5:
        print("Sorry, you are out of guesses. The answer was {}.".format(game_solution))

Answer 1 · 2022-05-27T18:33:33Z

May 27, 2022 6:33pm

The loop checks the value of "attempt", but it is never changed so the loop continues forever.

The last thing done in the loop should be to reduce the value of "attempt" (attempt -= 1).

Then after the loop, you will probably want a simple "if" instead of a another "while" to print out the message.

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