Confusion over the equals operator. Please help me understand

Ok, so for the difference between the number of '=' operators, one '=' operator is a setter. So notice how on the first 3 lines of your script you're using one '=' when declaring the variables? That's because you're DECLARING "This is going to be a placeholder for that". Now for the multiples, 2 and 3 '=' operators are checkers. When you use '==' (you don't have any in this script) you're asking your script to check if both those values are equal. You are ASKING "Is this the same value as that?" and you're ONLY checking the value. What I mean by that is that you can have 4 as an integer and '4' as a string and according to the double '==' this is true. The triple, which you're using in your script, is a strict comparison. What that means is that the value AND the type have to be the same, so integer 4 and string '4' will NOT evaluate to true. For that to evaluate to true you would need both values to be 4 AND both types to be an integer, or both types to be a 'string'.

On to your second question. When using a conditional(if) statement, what you're putting in the parentheses has to evaluate to TRUE in order for that block of code to run, and if it's FALSE then it won't run that code and move on to your ELSE or ELSE IF if you've written one. In line one of your code you declared your variable 'correctGuess' to be FALSE by default, but then you wrote a few different conditions for how 'correctGuess' could evaluate to true, so with the last conditional if (correctGuess) it's just saying "If 'correctGuess' is TRUE, then run this block of code or ELSE run this other block'. It'd be the same as writing if (correctGuess === true) { code block };

If I confused you anywhere let me know and I'll elaborate on it. So ask away if its true that you're confused.

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Moderator Edit: Moved reply from Comments to Answers

Yes that all completely makes sense. Thanks so much.