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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Build a Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by Alex Ortega
Alex Ortega
Courses Plus Student 2,610 Points

My Code is not working,

I'm not the best when it comes to JavaScript in fact I down right despise it. but I need help with this code something is wrong with it and I can't figure out what, I am trying to create a random number generator. If anyone can help me that would be great. Here is the code: 

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 ) {
  document.write('<p>You guessed the number jackass!</p>';
} else {
 document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was'+ randomNumber+'</p>);
}

3 Answers

Ryann Brown
Ryann Brown
7,393 Points
Ryann Brown
Ryann Brown
7,393 Points

It looks like you're missing a closing parentheses after '<p>You guessed the number jackass!</p>' and you're missing a closing single quote after ('<p>Sorry. The number was'+ randomNumber+'</p>) . That should fix it up!

Nikita Neupane
Nikita Neupane
998 Points
Nikita Neupane
Nikita Neupane
998 Points

you are missing ' after '</p on line 6. it should be '</p>' hope this helps

SURENDRA MALLA
SURENDRA MALLA
3,727 Points
SURENDRA MALLA
SURENDRA MALLA
3,727 Points
  1. change "jackass" to "luck you!"
  2. '</p on line 6. it should be '</p>'