for some reason the actual tries figure is not right

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 24 May 2008 15:32:56 -0300, garywood <woodygar at sky.com> escribió:

> 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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Gabriel Genellina