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Introduction to Python’s Guess the Word Game
In this Project, we will create a program to create a guess the word game which will choose a secret or magic word and ask the user to guess the word by providing the letters. These letters provided must automatically be placed in the position where they are in the word so that the user may understand and guess the magic word.
Your Program must provide 10 chances for the user to guess and win the game.
Step 1: Importing the necessary module from Python.
In this step, we will import the random module and create a list of words that will be used for the guessing game.
import random as rd
#List of words for guessing
words = ['SEVEN', 'SNAKE', 'APPLE', 'MANGO', 'TOMB', 'JERRY', 'HELLO', 'HAPPY', 'BREAK']
Step 2: Creating a function
In this step, we will create a function by the name of print_place with the argument.
def print_place(underscores):
for i in underscores:
print(i, end=' ')
print()The purpose of this function is to update the word again and again when the user inputs the correct alphabet.
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Step 3: Printing the game instruction
In this step of the Python code, we will print the instructions so that the user can understand the rules and then proceed with the game.
#Printing the game instruction
print('--------Guess the Word Game---------------')
print('You Have 10 chances to win the game')
print('You have to guess the secret word using letters')
print('The letters will be placed automatically on the place if correct')
print("Let's Start----->")
You are reading——-Python: Create Guess the Word game in 6 steps
Step 4: Select a word randomly from the list and create a list of underscores.
# selecting the word from the list of words
word = rd.choice(words)
#creation of a list for placing _ _ _ _ _
underscores = ['_' for i in range(len(word))]
#Printing the first time
print_place(underscores)In this part of the Python code, we have used rd.choice(words) which will select a word from the words list randomly and store it in the variable word. Later on, we created a list of underscores like this (_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) with the same name to give a dramatic essence and also an idea to the player so that the player can see how many more alphabets are left to guess. At last, we have called the print_place() function with the argument underscores and declared a variable win with the stored boolean value False stored in it.
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Step 5: Create a loop to take alphabets one by one from the user and fix them.
#running the loop for executing the game with 10 chances.
for i in range(10):
char = input('Enter the character : ')
for i in range(len(word)):
if word.lower()[i] == char:
underscores[i] = char
print_place(underscores)
print()
if "".join(underscores) == word.lower():
print_place(underscores)
print('You Won the Game')
print('------------------------------------------')
break
else:
print('Try Again!!')
Now we create a loop that will run 10 times because this is the number of chances which a user gets to guess the alphabet. Inside this loop, we receive an input and store it in a variable named char. Now we run a loop to check if the alphabet entered by the user is equal to the alphabet stored in the i index number of the word. If it is true then this alphabet will be stored in the i index number of the underscores list.
Then we will call the print_place() function with the underscore as an argument which will print the list with underscores and the alphabet stored recently so that the user can see how many more alphabets are yet to guess. After that, we used conditional statements to whether the word selected by the computer matches the word inputted by the user if the condition is true, it will display the message “You won the game” and will break the loop otherwise it will show “Try Again”.
You are reading——-Python: Create Guess the Word game in 6 steps
Step 6: What if the user used all the chances and failed?
else:
print('You Lose the Game')
print('----------------------------------------------')If the user fails to guess all the alphabets in the given 10 chances, the user has lost the game. The loop will be finished and jump to the else section of the loop and display the message “You lose the game”.
If you want to play this game on your own, copy these Python code blocks in a step-by-step manner in your Python editor and run. You are not required to download the random module. Just paste this code and run the program.
You are reading——-Python: Create Guess the Word game in 6 steps
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