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Kaise
Kaise

Reputation: 31

Hangman Game: One word is given, how can I give it a list

I'm currently creating a Hangman game in Python. In the code, the word to be guessed is written. How can I change that to a list, and have a random word be chosen?

Here is my code:

print("What's your guess?")

word = "word"
guesses = ''

turns = 10

while turns > 0:
    failed = 0
    for char in word:
        if char in guesses:
            print(char)
        else:
            print("_")
            failed = failed + 1
    if failed == 0:
        print("You won")

        break

    guess = input("guess a character:")
    guesses = guess + guesses

    if guess not in word:

        turns = turns - 1

        print("Wrong")

        print("You have", + turns, "more guesses")

        if turns == 0:
            print("You lost, sorry")

Upvotes: 3

Views: 114

Answers (2)

natka_m
natka_m

Reputation: 1612

You can use random.choice. Just replace word = "word" with the following:

words_to_guess = ["queueing", "strength", "sesquipedalianism"]
word = random.choice(words_to_guess)

It will pick a random word from the provided list.

As a side note, you can also improve your prints setting the end parameter of the print function to an empty string. Then your entire word will be printed in one line:

        if char in guesses:
            print(char, end="")
        else:
            print("_", end="")

You may want to add an empty line \n before the "guess your character:" line then:

    guess = input("\nguess a character:")

Upvotes: 2

G. B.
G. B.

Reputation: 628

import random
wordlist = ['word1', 'word2', 'word3']
i = random.randint(0, len(wordlist)-1)
word = wordlist[i]

Upvotes: 3

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