Issue
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try_again = True
end_of_game = False
word_list = ["ardvark", "baboon", "camel"]
while try_again:
chosen_word = random.choice(word_list)
word_length = len(chosen_word)
display = []
for _ in range(word_length):
display += "_"
lives = 6
while not end_of_game:
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
for position in range(word_length):
letter = chosen_word[position]
if letter == guess:
display[position] = letter
if guess not in chosen_word:
lives = lives - 1
if lives == 0:
end_of_game = True
print("You lose, try again or quit")
print(f"{' '.join(display)}")
if "_" not in display:
end_of_game = True
print("You win.")
print(stages[lives])
if lives == 0:
x = input("Do you want to try again? (y/n):\n")
if x == "y":
try_again = True
else:
try_again = False
I created this hangman game while watching a tutorial, it didn’t include any option of trying again once we lose so I tried to create one.
When I press "y" and enter nothing really happens, the output console is just blank.
Can someone please explain what is wrong with this code?
I also tried to put the if statement in the lives == 0 loop but it didn’t work as well.
Solution
You are passing end_of_game to true if the player use all of is trial so when pressing y you will never enter in the second while. The number of lives must be also re-updated to 6 so the player can play again:
import random
stages = ['''
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O |
/|\ |
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try_again = True
end_of_game = False
word_list = ["ardvark", "baboon", "camel"]
while try_again:
chosen_word = random.choice(word_list)
word_length = len(chosen_word)
display = []
for _ in range(word_length):
display += "_"
lives = 6
while not end_of_game:
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
for position in range(word_length):
letter = chosen_word[position]
if letter == guess:
display[position] = letter
if guess not in chosen_word:
lives = lives - 1
if lives == 0:
end_of_game = False
lives = 6
print("You lose, try again or quit")
print(f"{' '.join(display)}")
if "_" not in display:
end_of_game = True
print("You win.")
print(stages[lives])
if lives == 0:
x = input("Do you want to try again? (y/n):\n")
if x == "y":
try_again = True
else:
try_again = False
Answered By – STM
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