Creating A Guessing Game In Python

Today we are going to make an interactive guessing game in Python. This is going to be a simple guessing game where the computer will generate a random number between 1 to 10, and the user has to guess it in 5 attempts.

Based on the user’s guess computer will give various hints if the number is high or low. When the user guess matches the number computer will print the answer along with the number of attempts. This is how the game looks in action,

In this article, we will guide you through each step of making this interactive guessing game in Python. Now, open your favorite text editor and start coding.

First, we will create a file a new file named game.py from our text editor. To generate a random number we will use a Python module named random to use this module in our program, we first need to import it.

Next, we will use the random module to generate a number between 1 to 10 and store it in a variable named number.

Now we will prompt the user to enter his name and store it to a variable named player_name.

In the next step, we will create a variable named number_of_guesses and assign 0 to it. Later we will increase this value on each iteration of the while loop. Finally, before constructing the while loop, we will print a string which includes the player name.

Now let’s design the while loop.

In the first line, we are defining the controlling expression of the while loop. Our game will give user 5 attempts to guess the number, hence less than 5 because we have already assigned the number_of_guesses variable to 0.

Within the loop, we are taking the input from the user and storing it in the guess variable. However, the user input we are getting from the user is a string object and to perform mathematical operations on it we first need to convert it to an integer which can be done by the Python’s inbuilt int() method.

In the next line, we are incrementing the value of number_of_guesses variable by 1.

Below it, we have 3 conditional statements.

1. In the first, if statement we are comparing if the guess is less than the generated number if this statement evaluates to true, we print the corresponding Guess.
2. Similarly, we are checking if the guess is greater than the generated number.
3. The final if statement has the break keyword, which will terminate the loop entirely, So when the guess is equal to the generated number loop gets terminated.

Below the while loop, we need to add another pair of condition statements,

Here we are first verifying if the user has guessed the number or not. if they did, then we will print a message for them along with the number of tries. If the player couldn’t guess the number at the end we will print the number along with a message. If you have been following us, then this is how your program should look like:

Now let’s run our game! To run the game, type this in your terminal python game.py and hit Enter. This was it, if you got stuck somewhere grab the code form Github repo