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Start your free trialLaknath Gunathilake
1,860 Pointssmall part of the game is not working-when I win the game it does't print you win! The word was {}
when I win the game "it does't print "you win! The word was {}
<p>
import random
#make a list of words
words=[ 'apple',
'banana',
'orange',
'coconut',
'strawberry',
'lime',
'grapefruit',
'lemon',
'kumquat',
'blueberry',
'melon',
]
while True:
start=input("press enter/return to start, or enter Q to quit")
if start.lower()=="q":
break
#draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
secret_word=random.choice(words)
bad_guesses=[]
good_guesses=[]
while len(bad_guesses)<7 and len(good_guesses) !=len(list(secret_word)):
#draw spaces
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('')
#take a guess
guess=input("guess the 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 guess 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("you win! The word was {}".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didn't geuess it my secret number was {}".format(secret_word))
#print out win/lose
</p>
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsTesting the number of guesses (as len(good_guesses)
) against the length of the word will not detect a win, unless the word has no repeated letters. For example, if the word is "apple", you will win in 4 guesses but the word has 5 letters.
You need a different way to detect a win. Perhaps test each letter in the word to see if it has been guessed?
Also, you don't need to convert a string to a list to get it's length, instead of len(list(secret_word))
you can just use len(secret_word)
.
Tessa Sullivan
1,517 PointsUse the 'set' command to determine the list of unique letters in the word.
if len(good_guesses) == len(set(secret_word)):