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Hangman game using random and indexing
import random
HANGMANPICS = ['''
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words = "ape cat dog baboon elephant giraffe apple coconut monkey rubik mice mouse pineapple android apple house fence python grail zerg protoss terran llama fire policeman mamerto smad zebra lion luffy nigga universidad".split()
def getRandomWord(wordList):
'''
This function returns a random word from the passed list of strings
'''
wordIndex = random.randint(0, len(wordList)-1)
return wordList[wordIndex]
def displayBoard(HANGMANPICS, missedLetters, correctLetters, secretWord):
print(HANGMANPICS[len(missedLetters)])
print()
print('Missed letters', end = ' ')
for letter in missedLetters:
print(letter, end = ' ')
print()
blanks = "__"*len(secretWord)
for i in range(len(secretWord)): #Replace blanks with correctly guessed letters
if secretWord[i] in correctLetters:
blanks = blanks[:i] + secretWord[i] + blanks[i+1:]
for letter in blanks: #show the secret word with spaces in between each letter
print(letter, end = ' ')
print()
def getGuess(alreadyGuessed):
'''
Returns the letter the player entered. This function makes sure the player
entered a single letter and not something else
'''
while True:
print("Guess a letter.")
guess = input()
guess = guess.lower()
if len(guess) != 1:
print("Please enter a single letter.")
elif guess in alreadyGuessed:
print("You have already guessed that letter. Choose again.")
elif guess not in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":
print("Please enter a LETTER")
else:
return guess
def playAgain():
'''
This function returns true if the player wants to play again,
otherwise it returns false
'''
print("Do you want to play again? (yes or no)")
return input().lower().startswith('y')
print("H A N G M A N")
missedLetters = ''
correctLetters = ''
secretWord = getRandomWord(words)
gameIsDone = False
while True:
displayBoard(HANGMANPICS, missedLetters, correctLetters, secretWord)
#Let the player type in a letter.
guess = getGuess(missedLetters + correctLetters)
if guess in secretWord:
correctLetters = correctLetters + guess
#Check if the player has won
foundAllLetters = True
for i in range(len(secretWord)):
if secretWord[i] not in correctLetters:
foundAllLetters = False
break
if foundAllLetters:
print("Yes, the correct word is ", secretWord," you have won")
gameIsDone = True
else:
missedLetters = missedLetters + guess
#Checks if the player have guessed to many times and lost
if len(missedLetters) == len(HANGMANPICS)-1:
displayBoard(HANGMANPICS,missedLetters,correctLetters,secretWord)
print("You have run out of guesses!\nAfter ",str(len(missedLetters)),"missed guesses and ", str(len(correctLetters))," correct guesses, the word was ","'", secretWord,"'")
gameIsDone = True
#Ask the player if they want to play again (but only if the game is done)
if gameIsDone:
if playAgain():
missedLetters = ''
correctLetters = ''
gameIsDone = False
secretWord = getRandomWord(words)
else:
break
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