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Python

Posted by Justin Kinney
Justin Kinney
445 Points

Rock paper scissors game

I'm making a rock paper scissors game and i was wondering if you would use elif statements for the choosing who wins for example would you use: elif( userGuess = 'rock' and computerGuess = 'scissors'): print ('user wins')

1 Answer

Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points
Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points

You're comparison should look something like this I'd say:

if userGuess == computerGuess:
    print("Tie")
elif userGuess == 'rock':
    if computerGuess == 'paper':
        print("You lose")
    else:
        print("You win")
elif userGuess =='paper':
    if computerGuess == 'rock':
        print ("You win")

You can finish that code if you want but that would be my suggestion for you as a beginner. In this code you only have your if statements nested once so that's fine.

Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points

Also, you should probably lowercase or uppercase userGuess and computerGuess right before this if/elif/else statement to make comparisons easy.