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Start your free trialdavid santos
4,629 PointsCode is appending if I guess right and not if I guess wrong
In the letter game, my code is adding strikes for good guess and not bad and I can figure out why.
import random
make a list of words
words = [
'apple',
'banana',
'orange',
'cocunut',
'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
# pick a random word
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses= []
good_guesses = []
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
# draw spaces
# draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
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 guess
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 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 {}".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didn't guess it! My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
# print out win/lose
1 Answer
Andrey Misikhin
16,529 Pointsimport random
words = [ 'apple', 'banana', 'orange', 'cocunut', 'strawberry', 'lime', 'grapefruit', 'lemon', 'kumquat', 'blueberry', 'melon']
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses= []
good_guesses = []
while True:
start = input("Press enter/return to start, or enter Q to quit")
if start.lower() == 'q':
break
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
# draw spaces
# draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
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 guess
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 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 {}".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didn't guess it! My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
# print out win/lose