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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers The Mad Libs Challenge Revisited

Posted by ae33
ae33
1,671 Points

Question counter stays the same. What am I doing wrong? 

var questions = 3;
var questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';

var adjective = prompt('Please type an adjective' + questionsLeft);
questions -= 1;
questions = ' [' + questions + ' questionsLeft]';
var verb = prompt('Please type a verb' + questionsLeft);
questions -= 1;
questions = ' [' + questions + ' questionsLeft]';
var noun = prompt('Please type a noun' + questionsLeft);
alert('All done. Ready for the message?');
var sentence = "<h2>There once was a " + adjective;
sentence += ' programmer who wanted to use JavaScript to ' + verb;
sentence += ' the ' + noun + '.</h2>';
document.write(sentence);

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

After you decrement questions you update questions when I think you meant to update questionsLeft. Example:

questions -= 1;
questions = ' [' + questions + ' questionsLeft]';

should be:

questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';

Otherwise you are prompting the initial value of questionsLeft.

ae33
ae33
1,671 Points

Thank you!

Victor Warner
Victor Warner
1,882 Points
Victor Warner
Victor Warner
1,882 Points

same problem thank you for the help