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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
#Choose a word | |
word_bank = ["mountains", "madness", "colour", "unknown", | |
"dream", "witch", "house", "quest", "horror", "west", "reanimator", | |
"red", "hook", "case", "ward", "space", "shadow", "time", "over", "shunned", | |
"whisperer", "darkness"] | |
word = word_bank.sample | |
chances = 8 | |
#Generate guessed word | |
guessed_word = "" | |
len = word.length | |
len.times do | |
guessed_word << "_" | |
end | |
#Start game | |
puts "Welcome to Hangman!" | |
puts | |
puts "Word: " + guessed_word | |
puts "Chances remaining: #{chances}" | |
while guessed_word != word && chances > 0 | |
#Get user input | |
print "Guess a single letter (a-z) or the entire word: " | |
guess = gets.chomp | |
#Evaluate guess | |
correct = false | |
occurrences = 0 | |
loc = 0 | |
if guess.length > 1 #User guesses entire word | |
if guess == word | |
guessed_word = word | |
else | |
puts "That's not the word, sorry." | |
chances -= 1 | |
end | |
else #User guesses individual letter | |
word.each_char do |letter| | |
if guess == letter | |
guessed_word[loc] = letter | |
occurrences += 1 | |
correct = true | |
end | |
loc += 1 | |
end | |
if correct == true #Inform user of outcome of their guess | |
puts "Found #{occurrences} occurrence(s) of the character #{guess}." | |
puts | |
puts "Word: " + guessed_word | |
else | |
chances -= 1 | |
puts "Sorry, no #{guess}'s found." | |
puts | |
puts "Word: " + guessed_word | |
puts "Chances remaining: #{chances}" | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
if guessed_word == word | |
puts "Congratulations, you've guessed the word!" | |
else | |
puts "You're out of chances, better luck next time..." | |
end |
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