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Thread: Basic Guessing Game

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    Default Basic Guessing Game

    Hi all, I have created a basic guessing game as follows:

    package latesttasks;
    // Create a basic guessing game, user has to guess 1 - 10, system prints
    // higher, lower, or correct. When correct answer is met, tell the user how 
    // many attempts it took and ask if they would like to play again. 
    import java.util.Random;
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class Task3 {
     
        public static void main(String[] args) {
     
            Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
     
            Random rand = new Random();
     
            int number = rand.nextInt(10) + 1;
     
            int guess;
     
            System.out.println("Welcome to Dan's Guessing Game");
            System.out.println("Guess the number between 1 and 10");
            System.out.println("");
     
            guess = scan.nextInt();
     
            while (guess < number) {
                System.out.println("Higher!");
                guess = scan.nextInt();
            }
            while (guess > number) {
                System.out.println("Lower!");
                guess = scan.nextInt();
            }
            while (guess == number) {
                System.out.println("Correct!");
                break;
            }
        }
    }


    Now what i want to do is take this program to the next level.

    Firstly I want the Program to count the user of attempts it took the user to guess correctly and print out a message like.... ''It took you 'x' attempts''

    Secondly I want to add an option for the user to play again at the end, for example print: '' Would you like to play again? y / n. The user would type 'y' to play again, or 'n' to terminate the program.

    Any suggestions ?

    --- Update ---

    Can someone please advise how to wrap my code in color coded tags rather than just plain ?

    Many thanks.


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    Default Re: Basic Guessing Game

    to count the user of attempts
    Define a variable to hold the count and add one to it each at each attempt.

    option for the user to play again
    Put the code in a while() loop. At the end of the code inside the loop, ask the user if he wants to repeat. If he says no exit the loop.
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