Question

Basic Game help:
Revise the BasicGame logic so that the user who takes more than three guesses to get it right
will never succeed in guessing the right answer.
code:
public class BasicGame1 extends BasicGame
{
private String itsSecretWord = "ducky";
private String itsUsersWord = "none";

public void playOneGame()
{ askUsersFirstChoice();
while (shouldContinue())
{ showUpdatedStatus();
askUsersNextChoice();
}
showFinalStatus();
} //============================
}
Object class in comments.

Answer 1

Object class:

public class BasicGame extends Object
{
private String itsSecretWord = "duck";
private String itsUsersWord = "none";

public void playManyGames()
{ playOneGame();
while (JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog (null, " play again?") == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION)
playOneGame();
} //==========================

public void playOneGame()
{ askUsersFirstChoice();
while (shouldContinue())
{ showUpdatedStatus();
askUsersNextChoice();
}
showFinalStatus();
} //===========================

public void askUsersFirstChoice()
{ itsUsersWord = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Guess the secretword:");
} //============================

public boolean shouldContinue()
{ return ! itsSecretWord.equals (itsUsersWord);
} //============================

public void showUpdatedStatus()
{ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "That was wrong. Hint:It quacks.");
} //============================

public void askUsersNextChoice()
{ askUsersFirstChoice();
} //=============================

public void showFinalStatus()
{ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "That was right. \nCongratulations.");
} //==============================
}

Answer 2

Did you make this code?

Answer 3

@ElleCullen

Answer 4

Yes, I typed it based on some information in my textbook. Part of my work was to do an object class.

Answer 5

Ok, you can create another field in the BasicGame1 class called numGuesses, and when numGuesses hits 3, then move to a different while loop that executes forever... asking the user for their guess each iteration.

Answer 6

@ElleCullen

Answer 7

*when numGuesses hits 3 && the latest guess was false

Answer 8

if(numGuesses >= 3 && !latestGuess)
purgatory();

Answer 9

I did this,
public class BasicGame1 extends BasicGame
{
private String itsSecretWord = "ducky";
private String itsUsersWord = "none";

String itsMark = ""; // I added another declaration
public void playOneGame()
{ askUsersFirstChoice();

while (shouldContinue())
{ showUpdatedStatus();
askUsersNextChoice();
}


showFinalStatus();

playManyGames();
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "You cannot succeed in getting the correct answer if you take >3 guesses.");

} //============================

public void askUsersFirstChoice()
{ itsUsersWord = JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Guess the secretword:");
itsMark = "x"; // this is to represent guess number 1
} //============================

public void askUsersNextChoice()
{ askUsersFirstChoice();
itsMark = itsMark + "x"; // represents the next guess as itsMark = "x"
} //=============================

public boolean shouldContinue()
{ // return ! itsSecretWord.equals (itsUsersWord);
return ! (itsSecretWord.equals(itsUsersWord) || itsMark.equals ("xxx"));
// here, I just replaced the statement to verify that the user will get the right
// answer after 3 guesses only
} //============================

public void showFinalStatus()
{ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "That was right. \nCongratulations.");
itsMark = ""; // here, I put the its Mark to make sure everything works, since
// I updated everything else
} //==============================


}

Answer 10

Nice :) there's many ways to go about it-- I'll show another way about how one could go about it;
```
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class BasicGame1 extends BasicGame
{
private String itsSecretWord = "ducky";
private String itsUsersWord = "none";
private int numGuesses = 1;
public void playOneGame()
{ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "After your first 3" +
" guesses, you will never be able to get the right answer.");
askUsersFirstChoice();

while (shouldContinue() && numGuesses < 3)
{ numGuesses++;
showUpdatedStatus();
askUsersNextChoice();
}

if(numGuesses == 3 && shouldContinue())
this.purgatory(); //calls purgatory method in this class
else
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Congrats- you win.");

}
public void purgatory(){
while(true){
askUsersNextChoice();
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Incorrect answer.");
}
}
```