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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Letter Game Introduction

Laknath Gunathilake
Laknath Gunathilake
1,860 Points

small part of the game is not working-when I win the game it does't print you win! The word was {}

when I win the game "it does't print "you win! The word was {}

<p>
import random
#make a list of words

words=[  'apple',
        'banana',
        'orange',
        'coconut',
        '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
    #draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
    secret_word=random.choice(words)
    bad_guesses=[]
    good_guesses=[]

    while len(bad_guesses)<7 and len(good_guesses) !=len(list(secret_word)):
    #draw spaces
        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 a guess
        guess=input("guess the 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 was {}".format(secret_word))
                break
        else:
            bad_guesses.append(guess)
    else:
        print("You didn't geuess it my secret number was {}".format(secret_word))

    #print out win/lose
</p>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Testing the number of guesses (as len(good_guesses)) against the length of the word will not detect a win, unless the word has no repeated letters. For example, if the word is "apple", you will win in 4 guesses but the word has 5 letters.

:point_right: You need a different way to detect a win. Perhaps test each letter in the word to see if it has been guessed?

Also, you don't need to convert a string to a list to get it's length, instead of len(list(secret_word)) you can just use len(secret_word).

Tessa Sullivan
Tessa Sullivan
1,517 Points

Use the 'set' command to determine the list of unique letters in the word.

if len(good_guesses) == len(set(secret_word)):