How to limit number of guesses on a program.

[G3PO]

Hey, so I've created a random number game where you are supposed to guess the number. The only problem is I want the user to only have five guesses, but I can't figure out how to do that. Any suggestions? (By the way, the program as of right now is set to print what the number is, that is just so that I know it works)

Here is my current code.

#include <iostream>  /*included to allow for cout/cin to be used*/
#include <ctime>     /*included to allow time() to be used*/
#include <cstdlib>   /*include to allow rand() and srand() to be used*/
using namespace std;
int main() {

bool cont=true;
while(cont)
{
        int count=0;
        int guess;
        srand(time(0)); /*seeds random number generator. Do this just once*/
        int x = rand() % 50;
cout << "I'm thinking of a number between one and fifty. You have five tries. Go.";
cout << "\nx = " << x << endl;

std::cin >> guess;

while (guess !=x) {

{
if (guess > x) {
cout << "Too high! Try again. ";
cin >> guess;
}

if (guess < x) {
cout << "Too low! Try again. ";
cin>>guess;
}
if (guess == x) {
cout << "You're exactly right! Good job! \n"; return 0;
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}

Thank you for any help.

[Moeljbcp]

Use an int to count how many guesses they've had, add one each time it loops, exit the loop when they have had too many guesses.

[G3PO]

Hmm. I tried doing that, maybe I'm doing it wrong. This is what I added (right at the start of the while loop).

However, when I run it after it asks for my first guess, inputting guesses doesn't do anything.

count++;

if (count ==5) {
cout << "Sorry, you're out of guesses!";
return 0;
}

[HiteshVaghani1]

hope this will help you..

        while (guess !=x && count!=5)
	{
		count++;
		if (guess > x)
		{
			cout << "Too high! Try again. ";
			cin >> guess;
		}
		else if (guess < x)
		{
			cout << "Too low! Try again. ";
			cin>>guess;
		}
		else
		{
			cout << "You're exactly right! Good job! \n"; 
		}
	}

[G3PO]

Oh I figured it out!

while (guess !=x && count<5) {


if (guess > x) {
cout << "Too high! Try again. ";
cin >> guess;
count++;
}

if (guess < x) {
cout << "Too low! Try again. ";
cin>>guess;
count++;
}
if (guess==x) {
cout << "You're exactly right! Good job! \n"; return 0;
}

if (count==5) {
cout << "You're out of guesses!\n"; return 0;
}

}

[Moeljbcp]

Do you initialize count to 0 before entering the loop?

e: oh nevermind. You should get a new guess at the beginning of the loop. You're getting new guesses in the middle of the loop. (cin >> guess;). And the way you handle it (if, if, if, instead of if, else if, else if.) it's possible to have a guess that's higher than x, then one that's lower than x, in one single loop.

[G3PO]

Oh okay that actually helped a lot. I switched it around and put the guess at the start of the loop, and changed it from all if's to if, else if, else if. Thank you very much!