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Posted January 21, 2019 3:55am by

I am getting 6 tries instead of 7...

When I run the program on the console I am getting "You have 6 tries left to solve" instead of 7... I don't know what it could be... At the begining I thought that was a scope issue but it doesn't seem that

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January 21, 2019 5:06am

I think your issue is that you are initializing misses to a space instead of an empty string. So the first time through misses.length will equal 1.

// in Game.java
// should be "" not " " (also hits should be fixed)
misses = " ";

// then this should be evaluated correctly
public int getRemainingTries(){
    return MAX_MISSES - misses.length();
  }