Guessing Game

excerpt: This covers the basic building blocks such as Reading User Input, while Loop and Counter. tags: read-user-input while-loop counter

Write a guessing game where you have to guess a secret number between 1 and 100. After every guess the program tells the user whether the number was large or small. At the end, print the number of tries needed.

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def guess
  secret_number = 9
  guess = ""
  guess_count = 0

  while guess.to_i != secret_number
    puts "Enter guess: "
    guess = gets.chomp
    guess_count += 1
    
    if guess.to_i < secret_number
      p "Number is greater than #{guess}"
    elsif guess.to_i > secret_number
      p "Number is less than #{guess}"
    end
  end
  
  guess_count
end

p "Number of tries: #{guess}"

Replace the hard coded secret number with generating a random number between 1 and 100 (inclusive of 1 and 100):

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secret_number = rand(1..100)

Building Blocks

• Reading User Input
• while Loop
• Counter