Building a Guessing Game | Java | Tutorial 20

Throughout the course we'll be looking at various topics including variables, arrays, getting user input, loops, conditionals, object orientation, and much more.

[nathansmart]

Been on and off coding for years. You've literally made me understand everything i couldn't pick up as well so easily :)

[geenade]

thank you ! saved me a boat load of time on my homework assignment! Keep it up!

[angieg]

Good example of a beginner game to program.

[Future]

I made some minor changes to the code so that the user guesses are not cap-sensitive and I decided to not used booleans as it confused me but the user still gets 3 guesses


public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

String secretWord = "cowboys";
String guess = "";
int guessCount = 0;
int guessLimit = 3;

while (!guess.equals(secretWord)) {

if (guessCount < guessLimit) {
System.out.print("Enter a guess: ");
guess = input.nextLine();
guess = guess.toLowerCase();
guessCount++;
if (guessCount == guessLimit) {
System.out.println("Out of guesses, You lose!");

}
}

}

System.out.println("You Win!");
}

}

[Kickflips]

I paused the video before you set up the "lose" condition to see if I could figure it out, it works but I came up with something different and I'd like to know if there is any practical difference. While it functions the same, is the way I have it less efficient or does it matter? Here's where it differs:

{
if(guessCount < guessLimit) {
System.out.print("Enter a Guess: ");
guess = keyboardInput.nextLine();
guessCount++;
}else {
outOfGuesses = true;
System.out.println("You lose :P");
break;
}
}
{
System.out.println("You Win!");
}

P.S.

This is my first time coding and your teaching style has made it so easy to grasp thank you!!

[milandave]

oh man!!! you are
so easy to understand....
thanks for explanation

[thelawgameplaywithcommenta]

I did it slightly differently. I put the if statement outside and after the loop, It's looking for if the guessCount <= guessLimit and if the guess.equals(secretWord)
This makes it so if guessLimit is 4 you have for attempts to try.

[immer]

What if i want to create 2 options:
1.with no limited attempts
2.with limited attempts

????

[dishabanerjee_chair]

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[halaramimido]

for the guess limit, could you also put the while loop inside a for loop that is = to the guess limit?

[zoilavaca]

How can I add a list of words so that the "secret word"grabs a word from that list, and how can I validate that the user only uses strings when they are guessing ? Thanks from a noob 8)

[hakirawr]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! my grades have hope now, because of you!

[chifuyu]

I made a different code but with same basics and here it is:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class game{
public static void main (String[]args){
Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in);
String SecretWord ="giraffe";
String guess="";
int count=0;
{
System.out.println("Enter a guess");
guess= sc.nextLine();
count++;
if(guess.equals(SecretWord)){
System.out.println("You Win!!");
}else if(count==3){
System.out.println("It is an animal");
}else if(count==6) {
System.out.println("This animal lives in forest");

}else if(count==8){
System.out.println("Hey loser!");
break;
}
}
}
}

[norbertkulacin]

wow amazing example, thanks so much!!!!

[joshuatruelen]

How could you add total score? For example you make 5 questions and it takes correct answer and it print (you got 3 out of 5) etc....

[salonipatel]

how to add point for giving right answer and deduct point for wrong guess

[kishorkumar-uelj]

Thank you so much for these exercises 💪

[flashmash]

You just did my homework for me 🤧🤧❤️❤️❤️❤️thank you

[LTProduction]

great - this is my code :)
import java.util.*;
public class Guessing_Game {
public static Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
public static void main(String[] args) {
String question="SHE HAS BROWN HAIR & CURLLY HAIR, BROWN EYES, WHO IS SHE ? ";

String guess="carmit";
String SecretWord=input.nextLine();
int i=3;
&& i>=0) {

System.out.println("You have another "+i+" guesses to guess");
System.out.println("try again");
SecretWord=input.next();

i--;
}
if(i>=0) {
System.out.println("you are right");}
else
System.out.println("you lose");
}
}

[tanasisyanev]

he wrote 30line code and he said this was a lot of code in the program ? lol