Hey, I need a little help with the "Ghost" part of PS5. My code is almost done, but I'm running into a problem and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I have two functions that should trigger gameover to be true, but they don't seem to be doing this. If you spell out "faces", it tells you that you've spelled a word, but I dont think it sets gameover to true, and I don't know why. Same thing if you spell "Pyz" it will tell you that you aren't on the way to a word, but it doesn't set gameover to be true...
http://dpaste.com/615526/

Question

anonymous · Answer

Your gameover functions are embedded in your functions, so they only change the local 'gameover', not the global one. One way to fix it would be for to put gameover = true with lines 85 and 86 (although you'll also need to add a return False somewhere in waytoword)

anonymous · Answer

got it! thanks a bunch

anonymous · Answer

about 'def waytoword(gamestring)', try to use bisearch. It will be faster a lot. wordlist has 83,667 words so straight forward iteration is bad solution.