In this article we will demonstrate how to create a simple guessing game.   The goal of the game is to guess the right number.

Example An example run below: Simple text game with Python

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Random number

The user will be asked to guess the random number. We first pick the random number:

from random import randint
x = randint(1,9)

The randint() function will pick a pseudo random number between 1 and 10. Then we have to continue until the correct number is found:

guess = -1
print("Guess the number below 10:")
while guess != x:
    guess = int(raw_input("Guess: "))
if guess != x:
        print("Wrong guess")
    else:
        print("Guessed correctly")

Python Guessing Game

The code below starts the game:

from random import randint
x = randint(1,9)
guess = -1
print "Guess the number below 10:"
while guess != x:
    guess = int(raw_input("Guess: "))
if guess != x:
        print("Wrong guess")
    else:
        print("Guessed correctly")

An example run:

Guess the number below 10:
Guess: 3
Wrong guess
Guess: 6
Wrong guess
..