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HiLo Game Tweaking - ViciouS - Jun 23, 2011

Alright, so I am a beginner "coder" and I was messing around with a game called "HiLo" and I finally got it to display different results depending on how many guesses you attempt. However, I'm not sure how to implement my next step. What I want to do is tell the user a certain message and end the game if they reach too many guesses. Something like "You've used 20 guesses already. Forget it. Game Over." What line should I use or how should I put it in?

Code
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    srand(time(0));
    int guessNum = rand() % 100;
    int guess;
    int attempts = 0;
    
    cout << "This is the \"Hi Lo Game\"\n" << endl;
    cout << "Guess a number for 1 - 99: " << endl;
    while (guess != guessNum)
    {
          cin >> guess;
          if (guess > guessNum)
          {
               cout << "Sorry, that guess is too high. Guess again.\n" << endl;
          }
          if (guess < guessNum)
          {
               cout << "Sorry, that guess is too low. Guess again. \n" << endl;
          }    
          attempts++;
    }
  
    if (guess == guessNum)
    {
         cout << "Game Over. That was the right guess. The correct number was " << guessNum << "." << endl;
    }
    
    if (attempts == 1)
    {
         cout << "Incredible!! You guessed the correct number in a single guess!\n" << endl;
    }
    
    if (attempts > 1 && attempts <= 5)
    {
        cout << "Well done. You only needed " << attempts << " guesses to get the right answer.\n" << endl;
    }
    
    if (attempts > 5 && attempts <= 10)
    {
         cout << "Meh. You could have done better. You needed " << attempts << " guesses to win.\n" << endl;
    }
    
    if (attempts > 10)
    {
        cout << "Terrible. Keep playing to improve. It took " << attempts << " attempts to get the answer.\n" << endl;
    }
        
    
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Also, I have heard bad things about the system pause but I was taught that way. I replace with "cin.get()" or something like that, right?

* - Irritiable - Jun 23, 2011

(Jun 23, 2011 05:42 PM)ViciouS Wrote:  Alright, so I am a beginner "coder" and I was messing around with a game called "HiLo" and I finally got it to display different results depending on how many guesses you attempt. However, I'm not sure how to implement my next step. What I want to do is tell the user a certain message and end the game if they reach too many guesses. Something like "You've used 20 guesses already. Forget it. Game Over." What line should I use or how should I put it in?

EDIT: Code removed.

Also, I have heard bad things about the system pause but I was taught that way. I replace with "cin.get()" or something like that, right?

Hello, ViciouS.

For your first question, regarding exiting prematurely based on a number of guesses, how would we accomplish this?
Because the word "guesses" means there is more than one guess, I am assuming we are using a loop.
This means we have to count (keep track of) the number of guesses the user has made.
Every iteration we can increment (add to) this count by one; To represent another guess.
When the number of guesses has exceeded a certain amount, we exit the loop!

Example:
Code
#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;

int main() {

    srand(time(NULL));

    cout << "Hello there! You have 5 guesses to pick a number I am thinking of between 1 and 20!\n";

    int guess = 0;
    int number = rand() % 20;

    cout << "ANSWER: " << number << endl;

    cout << "You have: 5 guesses remaining.\n";

    for (int count = 4; count >= 0; count--) {
  cin >> guess;

  if (guess == number) {
    break;
  }

  cout << "You have: " << count << " guesses remaining.\n";
    }

    if (guess == number) {
  cout << "You've won!";
    } else {
  cout << "You've lost... :(";
    }

    return 0;
}

I hope this leads to a solution for your problem! 🙂

Yes, you can use cin.get() to 'hold the execution window open.'
You can also use an IDE for that, or simply open it with command prompt.