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Re: for some reason the actual tries figure is not right

En Sat, 24 May 2008 15:32:56 -0300, garywood <wo******@sky.c omescribió:
can someone explain why the tries displays the wrong number
thanks
orginally i started off with tries = 0 but it was off by 2
How would you count that if you were playing the game "for real"? I'd say that you start (mentally) at 0 and count one more each time the other player says a word.

In your code, there are *two* places where the player inputs his guess. A common idiom is to rearrange the code this way:

tries = 0
....
while True:
guess = raw_input("Your guess: ")
tries += 1
# break out of the loop when player guesses
if guess==correct:
break
print "Sorry..."
....
print "You guessed it in", tries, "tries."
....

(instead of all those if/else, try to use a dictionary to hold the "hint" corresponding to each word - you might even store several hints, as a tuple)

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