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

Alex Tiburzi
Alex Tiburzi
1,179 Points
Posted by Alex Tiburzi
Alex Tiburzi
1,179 Points

Why does it say correctGuess = false; ? Shouldn't the correct guess always be true?

Kind of confused about this but I'm sure there's an easy explanation

3 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The correctGuess variable is used to check if a correct guess has happened. When a correct guess occurs it is set to true. If you set it to true from the start then the code would act as if the guess was correct even if it was not.

Jacques Retief
Jacques Retief
954 Points
Jacques Retief
Jacques Retief
954 Points

This should be your reference point to your question:

if ( correctGuess ) {
    document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
} else {
    document.write('<p>Sorry. The number is ' + randomNumber + '.</p>');
}

Go from here and place the under understanding of it into context of your question, so that you may come up with your own answer :)

Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson
4,347 Points
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson
4,347 Points

If correctGuess were set to true from the start it would run through the first if statement and go to the end of the program, because the statement would always be true.