I'm in a basic programming class and I'm a bit stuck working on this game. The idea was to create a simple word-guessing game, where the computer would choose a random word and you would attempt to guess first some letter in the word, then the word itself after 5 tries. I've gone through multiple times and I still get an error of "Invalid Syntax" when I attempt to run the module. I'm a bit dyslexic when it comes to programming languages, so maybe there's something I'm overlooking? I would appreciate it if someone out there could offer a bit of help! #Word Guessing Game #Computer picks a random word #Player tries to guess it #computer only responds with yes or no import random tries = 0 print "Welcome to the word game!" print "\nI'm going to think of a word and you have to guess it!" print "\nGuess which letters are in the word, then you have to guess the whole thing!" print "\nGood luck!" WORDS = ("follow", "waking", "insane", "chilly", "massive", "ancient", "zebra", "logical", "never", "nice") word = random.choice(WORDS) correct = word length = len(word) length = str(length) guess = raw_input("The word is " + length + " letters long. Guess a letter!: ") while tries < 5: for guess in word: if guess not in word: print "Sorry, try again." else: print "Good job! Guess another!" tries = tries + 1 #* if tries = 5: final = raw_input ("Try to guess the word!: ") if final = correct: print "Amazing! My word was ", word, "!" else: print "Sorry. My word was ", word, ". Better luck next time!" raw_input("\n\nPress enter to exit") It should also be noted that the problems occurred after the end of the "while tries" block, when I attempted to specify the limits of the "tries" variable. I've worked with it before in a random number game, but for some reason it didn't work properly here. I would greatly appreciate some help! It should also be noted that I run on a rather outdated version of Python, some variation of 2.0, I believe. Continue reading...
