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JavaScript

Posted by Doegena Fennich
Doegena Fennich
8,974 Points

'else' keeps popping up even if the answer is correct.

dont know where i went wrong.

here's my code;

var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 9 ) + 1;

var question5 = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, i think of ...')

if ( parseInt(question5) === randomNumber) {
    alert("Correct answer!")
    score += 20;
} else if ( parseInt(question5) > randomNumber ) {
    var questionLess = prompt('I think the answer is less than ' + question5 + ' [ One try left ]')
} if (parseInt(questionLess) === randomNumber) {
    alert('Correct answer!')
    score +=20;
}

else if (parseInt(question5) < randomNumber ) {
    var questionMore = prompt('I think the answer is more than ' + question5 + ' [ One try left ]')
}  if (parseInt(questionMore) === randomNumber) {
      alert('Correct answer!');
      score += 20;
    } else {
     alert('sorry, the answer was ' + randomNumber);
    }

2 Answers

Korey Smith
Korey Smith
11,804 Points

I ran the code and everything appears to be working properly. However I did notice that you wanted someone to guess a number between 1 and 10, but "var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 9 ) + 1;" will only produce numbers 1-9. You would need to insert a 10 instead of a 9.

Tomasz Halaczkiewicz
Tomasz Halaczkiewicz
21,845 Points
Tomasz Halaczkiewicz
Tomasz Halaczkiewicz
21,845 Points

It runs correctly but you're missing a couple things here. First of all you forgot to declare score variable, so even if you guess right there's nothing to add points to. Also you're missing a few semicolons, Chrome ignores it though.

Doegena Fennich
Doegena Fennich
8,974 Points

This is just a part of the code, as you can see this is the 5th question of my little quessing game. but thanks for the info about chrome.