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Python

Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points
Posted by Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points

Letter_game.py

import random

words = [
    'apple',
    'banana',
    'orange',
    'cocconut',
    '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

    secret_word = random.choice(words)
    bad_guesses = []
    good_guesses = []

    while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
        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('')


        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 guessed 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))

I'm getting an invalid syntax on while true and I tried to follow the video with kenneth

4 Answers

Garrett Guevara
Garrett Guevara
11,331 Points

Hi Christopher,

The two things I noticed were that you didn't close the square brackets in your words array. You also forgot to close a parenthesis for len(list(secret_word)). I corrected them and was able to run it. I hope this helps!

import random

words = [
    'apple',
    'banana',
    'orange',
    'cocconut',
    '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

    secret_word = random.choice(words)
    bad_guesses = []
    good_guesses = []

    while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
        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('')


        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 guessed 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))

Happy coding!

Garrett

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If you keep going through the course, we correct a bug that's in this version. Specifically, this bit of logic:

while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):

What happens if a word has a repeated letter? good_guesses isn't going to get multiple copies of the letter so the length of that list and the list made from the chosen word won't ever sync up.

Daniel Ruggiero
Daniel Ruggiero
1,224 Points
Daniel Ruggiero
Daniel Ruggiero
1,224 Points

Thanks, I was having this problem too

Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points
Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points

I have got my program to work to a point I can play the game but it won't tell me when I have won and I can't get a proper exit besides at start

import random
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

    secret_word = random.choice(words)
    bad_guesses = []
    good_guesses = []

    while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
        for letter in secret_word:
            if letter in good_guesses:
                print(letter, end='')
            else:
                print('_', end='')
        else:
            print('')
            print('Strikes: {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
            print('')


            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 guessed 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 secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
                    exit()
            else:
                bad_guesses.append(guess)
    else:
        print("You didn't get it My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
        break
Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points
Christopher Wommack
Christopher Wommack
3,983 Points

I still can't get it to say I won