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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

Anthony C
Anthony C
4,636 Points
Posted by Anthony C
Anthony C
4,636 Points

prompt is not popping up

I am following the code from the video but my prompts are not working. Not sure why.

var correctGuess = false;
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1;
var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?');
if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber ) {
  correctGuess = true;
} else if ( parseInt(guess) < randomNumber ) {
  var guessMore = prompt('Try again. The number I am thinking of is more than ' + guess);
  if (parseInt(guessMore) === randomNumber) {
      correctGuess = true;
  }
} else if ( parseInt(guess) > randomNumer ) {
  var guessLess = prompt('Try again. The number I am thinking of is less than ' + guess);
  if (parseInt(guessLess) === randomNumber) {
      correctGuess = true;
}
if ( correctGuess ) {
    document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
} else {
    document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '.</p>');
}

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Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
10,945 Points
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
10,945 Points

You didn't close your conditional statement on line 11 -- there's a " { " but not a closer "}".

Here's what I did and made it work!

} else if ( parseInt(guess) > randomNumer ) {
  var guessLess = prompt('Try again. The number I am thinking of is less than ' + guess);
}if (parseInt(guessLess) === randomNumber) {
      correctGuess = true;
}
Anthony C
Anthony C
4,636 Points
Anthony C
Anthony C
4,636 Points

Thank you for the help!

Valerie Way
Valerie Way
8,544 Points

I'm having a similar problem.

var correctGuess = false; var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6 ) + 1; var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?'); if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber ) { correctGuess = true; } else if (parseInt(guess) < randomNumber ) { var guessMore = prompt ('Try again. The number I am thinking of is more than ' + guess); if (parseInt(guessMore) === randomNumber { correctGuess=true; } } else if (parseInt(guess) > randomNumber ) { var guessLess = prompt('Try again. The number I am thinking of is less than ' + guess); if (parseInt(guessLess) === randomNumber { correctGuess=true; } if ( correctGuess ) { document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>'); } else { document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber +'.</p>'); }