1.2 - Example

Example

Guess the Password!

# Directions: The goal of this exercise is to create
# a game where the user has to guess a certain password that
# you set and see how many tries it takes for that user to guess correctly

# start with assigning the password to some variable
pas = "password"

# set an input so it will appear in the console and ask the user
guess = input("Enter the password: ")

# set a counter to count the number of guesses
counter = 1

# set a while loop to check if the user guess correctly and count the number of guesses
while guess != pas:
    guess = input("Incorrect Password. Try Again:")
    counter += 1

# print the results
print(f"Nice Job. Unlocked. It took you {counter} tries")

Code Breakdown

• Line 9 - Handles events by getting user input.

• Line 15 - Updates game state; if guess is equal to the password, then stop running; if guess isn't, then keep running.

• Line 16 - Updates the display by telling the user that they got the wrong message and handles events by getting a new user input/guess.

Hangman

# Directions: Lets Play Hangman. In the code, create a function that
# takes as a paramater the word that the user has to guess.
# The user should have 15 'lives'.
# Similar to the original game of hangman, if the user guesses an incorrect
# letter, then their lives goes down. If they guess a correct letter, they
# don't lose a life.

score = 0

def hangman(endword: str):
    global score
    wordSet = set(endword)
    print(
        "Welcome to Hangman! You have 15 lives to "
        + "figure out the correct word. Good Luck!"
    )

    lives = 15
    correctguesses = []

    # mainloop
    for i in range(15):
        # take user input
        guess = input(f"Guess a letter! You have {lives} lives left: ")

        # win condition
        if guess == endword:
            print(f"Nice, the word is '{endword}'")
            score += 1
            break

        if guess in endword:
            correctguesses.append(guess)

        # 'draw screen' phase
        for i in range(len(endword)):
            if endword[i] in correctguesses:
                print(endword[i], end="")
            else:
                print("_ ", end="")
        print()

        if guess not in wordSet:
            lives -= 1

        # update game state
        # game over condition
        if lives == 0:
            print(f"You ran out of lives. The correct word is '{endword}'")

        # win condition
        if set(correctguesses) == wordSet:
            print(f"Nice, the word is '{endword}'")
            score += 1
            break

hangman("hangman")