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Counting Attempts #

From the last chapter, our code is currently looking like this:

import random

number = random.randint(1, 100)

while True:
    guess = int(input("Guess the number between 1 and 100: "))

    if guess == number:
        print(f"You guessed right! The correct number is {number}")
        break
    elif guess < number:
        print("Too low. Try again.")
    elif guess > number:
        print("Too high. Try again.")

We want to know how many attempts the player guessed before guessing the correct number. To do that, we will declare a new variable named attempts and set the value to 0 before the while loop. And within the while loop, we will increment the value of attempts by 1 every time the player guesses:

import random

number = random.randint(1, 100)
attempts = 0

while True:
    guess = int(input("Guess the number between 1 and 100: "))

    attempts += 1

    if guess == number:
        print(f"You guessed right! The correct number is {number}")
        break
    elif guess < number:
        print("Too low. Try again.")
    elif guess > number:
        print("Too high. Try again.")

We will also change the message when the player guesses the correct number to show how many guesses the player took. Instead of:

if guess == number:
    print(f"You guessed right! The correct number is {number}")
    break

We will print the below message instead:

if guess == number:
    print(f"Congratulations! You guessed the number in {attempts} attempts.")
    break

Now the code in game.py should look like the code below. You can try and play the game by running the command python game.py or python3 game.py and see the number of attempts you just implemented:

import random

number = random.randint(1, 100)
attempts = 0

while True:
    guess = int(input("Guess the number between 1 and 100: "))

    attempts += 1

    if guess == number:
        print(f"Congratulations! You guessed the number in {attempts} attempts.")
        break
    elif guess < number:
        print("Too low. Try again.")
    elif guess > number:
        print("Too high. Try again.")

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