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JavaScript

Posted by Ben Mohammad
Ben Mohammad
5,659 Points

Bummer prompt dont show. Any help out there?

can someone elaborate on where im going wrong......?

var randomNumber - Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1; var guess = prompt('I am thing of a number between q and 6. What is it?'); if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber){ document.write('<p>You guessed right!</p>); } else { document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '</p>); }

Mindy Sandilands
Mindy Sandilands
15,743 Points

Looks like it may be a simple syntax error.
var randomNumber - Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1;

Should be

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

You have a hyphen instead of the equal sign. Let me know if that doesn't work.

1 Answer

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points

You were missing some minor things. two of these: ', and when you declare a variable you wrote - instead of =

Here is the changed code:

var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1; 
var guess = prompt('I am thing of a number between q and 6. What is it?'); 

if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) { 
    document.write('<p>You guessed right!</p>'); 
} else { 
    document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '</p>'); 
}