Python Help - Guessing Game

[JamieT]

Hi all, you will have to excuse me, I am new to Python and have been learning over the past 2 days.

I have coded a basic guessing game and have a slight error.


First of all, I got the game to work perfectly as shown below;

secret_word = "spice"
guess = ""
guess_count = 0
guess_limit = 5
out_of_guesses = False

while guess != secret_word and not (out_of_guesses):
    if guess_count < guess_limit:
        guess = input("Enter your guess: ")
        guess_count += 1
    else: out_of_guesses = True

if out_of_guesses:
    print("Out of Guesses, YOU LOSE!")
else:
    print("YOU WIN!")

I then wanted to advance and interact more by saying "this is your first guess" which works perfectly.

I then tried to add in, "This is your last guess" which doesn't work in the correct way, it continues to offer me to answer, unless I guess correct then it will display "YOU WIN!"

Code shown below;

secret_word = "spice"
guess = ""
guess_count = 0
guess_limit = 5
out_of_guesses = False

guess = input("Enter your first guess: ")
while guess != secret_word and not (out_of_guesses):
    if guess_count < guess_limit:
        guess = input("Enter another guess: ")
        guess_count += 1
    elif guess != secret_word and not (out_of_guesses):
        guess = input("Enter your last attempt: ")
    else: out_of_guesses = True

if out_of_guesses:
    print("Out of Guesses, YOU LOSE!")
else:
    print("YOU WIN!")

Can anybody advise, I will be very grateful.

Cheers Guys!!

[Larz60+]

you could write it like this:

secret_word = "spice"
guess_count = 0
guess_limit = 5
guess = None

while guess_count < guess_limit:
    guess_count += 1
    guess = input(f"Enter guess number {guess_count}: ")
    if guess == secret_word:
        break

if guess_count == guess_limit:
    print("Out of Guesses, YOU LOSE!")
else:
    print("YOU WIN!")

try with correct answer:

Output:
Enter guess number 1: apple
Enter guess number 2: pear
Enter guess number 3: flour               
Enter guess number 4: spice
YOU WIN!

try without finding answer:

Output:
Enter guess number 1: apple
Enter guess number 2: pear
Enter guess number 3: flour
Enter guess number 4: ginger  
Enter guess number 5: nutmeg
Out of Guesses, YOU LOSE!

[JamieT]

That is perfect. Thank you for you help.

Was there a way to manipulate my code? I am just trying to understand my mistakes.

Again, much appreciated.


Also, can I ask what the f in your code refers to?

[deanhystad]

Your problem is here:

    elif guess != secret_word and not (out_of_guesses):
        guess = input("Enter your last attempt: ")
    else: out_of_guesses = True

There is no way you can reach "out_of_guesses = True.

To make this more obvious I am going to remove the guessing part of the game which should leave us a program that loops 5 times then exits.

guess_count = 0
guess_limit = 5
out_of_guesses = False
while not out_of_guesses:
    if guess_count < guess_limit:
        guess_count += 1
    elif not out_of_guesses:
        pass # Must have something after elif line
    else:
        out_of_guesses = True

"if guess_count < guess_limit:" is True for the first four guesses. On the fifth time through it is False, so we advance to "elif not out_of_guesses". not out_of_guesses is True, because we initialized out_of_guesses = False. On the sixth time through and every time after we execute the "elif" code and see that "not out_of_guesses" is True. As long as the elif is True, we cannot reach the final "else"

[JamieT]

All very helpful, really appreciate you help!

I did manage to get Python to do as I wanted it to, code shown below, probably very messy but hey ho!

secret_word = "spice"

print(" ")
print("Welcome to the 'Spice Guessing Game' you have 5 attempts. Good Luck!")
print(" ")

if secret_word == input("Enter your first guess: "):
    print(" ")
    print("You win Buddy!")
elif secret_word == input("Enter your second guess: "):
    print(" ")
    print("You win Buddy!")
elif secret_word == input("Enter your third guess: "):
    print(" ")
    print("You win Buddy!")
elif secret_word == input("Enter your fourth guess: "):
    print(" ")
    print("You win Buddy!")
elif secret_word == input("Enter your fifth and final guess: "):
    print(" ")
    print("You win Buddy!")
else:
    print(" ")
    print("You haven't guessed correctly, please come back and try again!")

[deanhystad]

guesses = ['first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'final']

for guess in guesses:
    if secret_word == input(f'Enter your {guess} guess: '):
        print('\nYou win Buddy!')
        break
else:
    print(f'The word was {secret_word}. Please come back and play again!')