Random Number Game

Question

I tried writing a script for this game, and nothing I was doing was working quite right. I therefore watched the video with the solution, and copied his code, but for some reason every time I try to open the file, it immediately tells me I have guess wrong.

Here is my code:

import random

rand_num = random.randint(1, 10)
guessed_nums = []
allowed_guesses = 5

while len(guessed_nums) > allowed_guesses:
  guess = input("Guess a number between 1 and 10: ")

  try:
    player_num = int(guess)
  except:
    print("That's not a whole number, idiot.")
    break

  if not player_num > 0 or not player_num < 11:
    print("That number isn't between 1 and 10. idiot.")
    break

  guessed_nums.append(player_num)

  if player_num == rand_num:
    print("Yay...you're not a total idiot. My number was {}.".format(rand_num))
    print("It took you {} tries.".format(len(guess_nums)))
    break
  else:
    if rand_num > player_num:
          print("Wrong! My number is higher than {}. Guess #{}".format(player_num, len(guess_nums)))
    else:
      print("Wrong again! My number is lower than {}. Guess #{}".format(player_num, len(guess_nums)))
    continue


if not rand_num in guessed_nums:
  print("Sorry, you're an idiot. My number was {}.".format(rand_num))

and this is an example of what is happening:

treehouse:~/workspace$ python guessing_game.py                                                   
Sorry, you're an idiot. My number was 8.                                                         
treehouse:~/workspace$

What have I done wrong? I've watched the video a couple of times, and I can't figure out what it is that I'm messing up.

Answer 1 · 2015-01-05T20:45:46Z

January 5, 2015 8:45pm

Hi!

So the first part you might want to change is your while loop.

while len(guessed_nums) > allowed_guesses:

You want this statement to be True until you have more guesses than allowed. To do this set the length of the guessed numbers list to being less than the number of allowed guesses.

The second part is you misspelled guessed_nums a couple times later on in your code.

if player_num == rand_num:
    print("Yay...you're not a total idiot. My number was {}.".format(rand_num))
    print("It took you {} tries.".format(len(guess_nums)))
    break
  else:
    if rand_num > player_num:
          print("Wrong! My number is higher than {}. Guess #{}".format(player_num, len(guess_nums)))
    else:
      print("Wrong again! My number is lower than {}. Guess #{}".format(player_num, len(guess_nums)))
    continue

Good luck getting your code working!

Answer 2 · 2015-01-05T20:41:52Z

January 5, 2015 8:41pm

The statement while len(guessed_nums) > allowed_guesses: is never true, since guess_nums is empty initially and there's no other statement before the while loop that changes that list. So the code immediately after the while loop executes, at the bottom of your script.

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