A number guessing game written in Go language

numguessinggame.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"math/rand"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	// accept user input
	fmt.Print("What's the biggest number: ")
	var number int
	fmt.Scanf("%d", &number)

	// begin game
	fmt.Println("You entered:", number)
	fmt.Println("Guess a number between 1 and", number)

	// generate a random number
	var random int
	random = randomNumber(number)

	// loop until user guesses correctly
	// and record the number of guesses
	var guesses int
	guesses = 1
	for {
		fmt.Print("Guess a number: ")
		var guess int
		fmt.Scanf("%d", &guess)
		if guess == random {
			fmt.Println("You guessed correctly!")
			fmt.Println("Number of guesses:", guesses)
			break
		} else if guess > random {
			fmt.Println("Too high!")
		} else {
			fmt.Println("Too low!")
		}
		guesses++
	}
}

func randomNumber(number int) int {
	// generate new seed using current time
	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

	// random a number between 1 and 10
	number = rand.Intn(number) + 1
	return number
}