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

Posted by Mark Fowler
Mark Fowler
Courses Plus Student 1,648 Points

Help with letter game code

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

# pick a random word
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 guess
    guess = input("Guess a 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 guess it! My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))

    # draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
    #print out win/lose

The code does not print Stikes {}/7, once you select enter/return it goes to Guess a letter: and does not accept an input

1 Answer

Conrad Cortes
Conrad Cortes
8,418 Points
Conrad Cortes
Conrad Cortes
8,418 Points

Hey! So I ran this in Jupyter to troubleshoot what you got going on and this is what I changed to get it to work...

import random

# pick a random word
secret_word = random.choice(['words', 'cow'])
bad_guesses = []

I made 'words' into a list and put things in it and then I imported random. after that it worked how it should.