Question

Your program will attempt to guess a number that the user is thinking of within the range [1, 20) (1 inclusive 20 exclusive). Your program will have 5 tries and each time the user should be able to tell your program if it is either correct, high, or low. If your program attempts 5 times but is not told that it is correct on the 5th try you should output "You cheated...". Otherwise your program should always be able to guess the correct answer if the user plays the game properly.

In this program you are required to write a function that takes a number (int) as a parameter and outputs the prompt to the user that guesses that number (tells the user "Is this your number: ") and shows them a menu that explains how to enter correct, high, or low. You may use the method that we used in class, where the user enters a number corresponding to their selection of high, low, or correct. (this function should be a int function that returns the users selection)
The next function that is required is the function that is used to calculate the next guess after being told that the previous guess was either high or low. (I will leave the design of this function up to you)

Answer 1

import random as ra

#First function

def takenum(guess):

print('Is ' ,guess, ' your number: ')

while True:

num = int(input('\\ Enter 1 if guess is correct \\ Enter 2 if guess is

higher \\ Enter 3 if guess is lower \\ ---Enter Number :'))

try:

if num == 1 or num == 2 or num == 3:

return num

break

else: raise

except:

print('enter a correct parameter')

#Second function

def guessGame():

a=1

b=20

count = 0

guess = ra.randint(a, b)

while count < 6:

num = takenum(guess)

if num == 1:

print('-----correct----')

break

elif num == 2:

count = count + 1

print('')

a = guess + 1

guess = (a + b)//2

elif num == 3:

count = count + 1

print(' ')

b = guess - 1

guess = (a + b)//2

if count == 5:

print('----You cheated------')

break

return

guessGame()

Step-by-step explanation:

This code was written in python 3

Firstly we have to import the random method which will help us generate random numbers.

#Function 1

We define the function and give it one argument. The first function as described in your question takes an int argument 'guess' and asks the user 'Is this your number'. It goes a step further to ask the user if the guess is correct, too low or too high.

it asks the user to enter:

1 if guess is correct

2 if guess is higher

3 if guess is lower

The try and except block is optional but i added it to ensure that the inputs are accurate.

finally, this first function returns an integer num.

#Function 2

firstly, we define the function

a and b are the upper and lower range values

count is our counter which will be used to iterate over the loop.

- we declare a variable guess and assign a random value to it. note that this same variable is the argument for the first function and the first guess and the range used is between 1 and 20.

This program allows for only 5 tries. so WHILE the number of tries is less than 6, it will keep guessing but at the 5th guess if you still don't affirm that the answer is correct, it will tell you that you cheated.

Remember the first function returns an integer num.

The IF loops make use of this num integer gotten from the first function to execute their blocks.

• if num == 1:

print('------correct-----')

break

' 1 ' here implies that the value is correct from the first function. the IF block in this case prints out that the guess was correct and breaks

• elif num == 2:

count = count + 1

print('')

a = guess + 1

guess = (a + b)//2

'2' here implies that the guess is higher, as a result the lower bound(a) is changed. 1 is added from the guess and assigned as the new lower bound and floor division is performed to get another guess. but this time a calculated guess.

• elif num == 3:

count = count + 1

print(' ')

b = guess - 1

guess = (a + b)//2

'3' here implies that the guess is lower, as a result the upper bound(b) is changed. 1 is subtracted from the guess and assigned as the new upper bound and floor division is performed to get another guess. but this time a calculated guess.

finally, we call the function