Ruby Word Guessing Game - ruby

Question

I am new to Ruby and working with this hangman style word guessing game. I have 2 main issues. Here is what I am working with now:
class Word_game
def initialize(word)
#word = word.downcase
#display_word = "_ " * word.length
end
def guess_the_word(word_guess)
word_guess.downcase
#word.split("").each_with_index do |word_letter, index|
if word_guess == word_letter
#display_word[index] = word_guess
p #display_word
puts "You're getting somewhere! Keep trying!"
end
end
if !#word.include? (word_guess)
puts "Nope, guess again..."
end
def win?
if #word == #display_word
puts "Congratulations you won!!! You are the word master!!!"
true
else
false
end
end
def lose?
if #attempts == 0
puts "You lose!!"
true
end
end
puts "Welcome to the Word Guessing Game! Let's see if YOU have what it TAKES!!!"
puts "This is a 2 player game. "
puts "Player 1... please enter a word for Player 2 to guess!"
puts ">>"
game_word = gets.chomp
game = Word_game.new(game_word)
attempts = 0
guessed_letters = []
until #attempts == game_word.length
puts "Ok Player 2, Guess a letter! GO!!!"
letter_guess = gets.chomp
if guessed_letters.include? letter_guess
puts "You already guessed that letter! Enter a new one."
letter_guess = gets.chomp
end
guessed_letters << letter_guess
game.guess_the_word(letter_guess)
if game.win?
attempts += 1
else game.lose?
end
end
end
First, the word progress should look like this if the word is hello:
h _ e _ _ o
Instead of this, the spaces are not in the right places and looks like this (an actual outcome of running my code):
.
Ok Player 2, Guess a letter! GO!!!
h
"h _ _ _ _ "
You're getting somewhere! Keep trying!
Ok Player 2, Guess a letter! GO!!!
o
"h _ o _ _ "
You're getting somewhere! Keep trying!
Ok Player 2, Guess a letter! GO!!!
e
"he_ o _ _ "
You're getting somewhere! Keep trying!
Ok Player 2, Guess a letter! GO!!!
l
"hel o _ _ "
You're getting somewhere! Keep trying!
"hello _ _ "
When the user guesses the word, it does not put my "congrats" statement and end the game.
I am also stuck on my 'lose' method. I am not sure how to fix the method so that the game ends when the user runs out of attempts and prints the "lose" statement.
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I think you're making the output too complicated. I would track the word and the guesses in an array. Instead of a display_word variable, I'd make it a method, possibly "to_s"
By the way, Ruby convention is to use CamelCase class names.
class WordGame
def initialize(word)
#word = word.downcase.chars
#guesses = ["_"] * #word.size
end
def to_s
#guesses.join " "
end
This should fix your spacing problem. This will also simplify guesses.
Also, the checking to see if you've already used the letter should probably be handled by the WordGame class.

Answer 2

For your first problem, your #display_word starts as follows:
[0] = '_' # For h
[1] = ' '
[2] = '_' # For e
[3] = ' '
...
When you guess 'e', for instance, you do:
#display_word[index] = word_guess
Where index equals 1, the second character in "hello", so as you can see it doesn't write to the 'e' index in #display_word.
For your second problem, there are a number of ways to fix it. For instance, I would do something like using #attempts_remaining starting from a value of 10 or so, then using the existing code:
if !#word.include? (word_guess)
#attempts_remaining -= 1 # Count failure to guess
puts "Nope, guess again..."
end
Then:
def win?
# If you've guessed all the letters, there's no '_' left in the display word
if !#display_word.include? ('_')
puts "Congratulations you won!!! You are the word master!!!"
true
else
false
end
end
def lose?
if #attempts_remaining == 0
puts "You lose!!"
true
end
end
Finally, tweak the until loop termination condition:
until game.win? or game.lose?
The existing calls to win? and lose? can be deleted.

Answer 3

(WORD MISSING GAME)
puts " "
puts "Total Round"
puts " "
puts "=> [Round-One ,Round-two,Round -three Round-four]"
puts " "
puts "=> [TOTAL 5 Tries]"
puts " "
one=""
two=""
three=""
four=""
puts " "
puts " --ROUND One press-- => (1)"
one=gets.to_i
puts '==================='
puts "Question:=> ( K ? N G )"
puts ""
c=5
5.times do
string1 = 'i'
stringone ="I"
puts "Answer:=> Try NO:#{c}"
string2 = gets.chomp
if (string1==string2)
puts "Good Work correct spaling"
break
elsif (stringone == string2 )
puts "Good Work correct spaling"
break
else
puts "-Worng spaling-"
end
c -=1
end
puts " Round Over "
if c<1
puts " Tries Over Game End "
exit
end
puts '==================='
puts "--ROUND Two press-- => (2)"
two=gets.to_i
puts '==================='
puts "Question:=> (P L ? Y )"
5.times do
string1 = 'a'
stringone = "A"
puts "Answer:=> Try NO:#{c}"
string2 = gets.chomp
if (string1==string2)
puts "Good Work correct spaling"
break
elsif (stringone==string2)
puts "Good Work correct spaling"
break
else
puts "-Worng spaling-"
end
c -=1
if c<1
puts " Tries Over Game End "
exit
end
end
puts " Round Over "
puts '==================='
puts "--ROUND Three press-- => (3)"
three=gets.to_i
puts '==================='
puts "Question:=> ( S P ? T )"
5.times do
string1 = 'o'
stringone= 'O'
puts "Answer:=> Try NO:#{c}*"
string2 = gets.chomp
if (string1==string2)
puts "_Good Work correct spaling_"
break
elsif (stringone == string2)
puts "_Good Work correct spaling_"
break
else
puts "-Worng spaling-"
end
c -=1
if c<1
puts " *Tries Over Game End* "
exit
end
end
puts " *Round Over* "
puts '==================='
puts "--ROUND Four press-- => (4)"
four=gets.to_i
puts '==================='
puts "Question:=> ( G ? M E )"
5.times do
string1 = 'a'
stringone = "A"
puts "Answer:=> Try NO:#{c}*"
string2 = gets.chomp
if (string1==string2)
puts "_Good Work correct spaling_"
break
elsif (stringone == string2)
puts "_Good Work correct spaling_"
break
else
puts "-Worng spaling-"
end
c -=1
if c<1
puts " *Tries Over Game End* "
exit
end
end
puts "**Yahoo Congragualtion complete All Round**"