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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

James Pawson
James Pawson
2,066 Points
Posted by James Pawson
James Pawson
2,066 Points

code not executing, first prompt box not popping up

I would be forever grateful if you could tell me why my code isn't executing, I'm at a loss on this one

Thanks you!

https://w.trhou.se/ixeaeonlmd

2 Answers

scribbles
scribbles
21,173 Points

You are missing some closing curly braces in some of your if statements:

Replace your JavaScript file with this one, in which I added corrected curly braces:

var correctGuess = false;

var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6 ) + 1;

var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?');

if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) {
  correctGuess = true;
} 

if (correctGuess) {
    document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
}
else if (parseInt(guess) < randomNumber) {
  var lowerGuess = prompt('<p>Wrong! but guess again! it\'s higher</p>');
  if (parseInt(lowerGuess) === randomNumber){
    correctGuess = true;
  }
}  
else if (parseInt(guess) > randomNumber) {
  var higherGuess = prompt('<p>Wrong! guess again! it\'s lower</p>');
  if (parseInt(higherGuess) === randomNumber){
    correctGuess = true;
  }
}
else {
    document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '.</p>');
}
James Pawson
James Pawson
2,066 Points
James Pawson
James Pawson
2,066 Points

Thank you so much for your help! :)