amandavhernan / inst126_p2

This is my second project for INST126.

Project 2: Hangman

This is my second project for INST126 at the University of Maryland. For this project, I created a flowchart that represented how my game would work. Then, I had to figure out the decryption mechanism and implement that into the program so the encrypted words would be decrypted once the user correctly guessed all of the letters.

How it works

When the user runs this program, it will randomly choose a word from a preselected list of encrypted words for the user to guess. Then, it will ask the user to guess a letter. The user gets 10 lives or guesses, and if the user guesses a letter incorrectly, they will lose one life. If the user guesses a letter correctly, they will not lose a life and will be able to continue guessing as long as they continue to guess the letters correctly. If the user does not enter a valid letter or guesses the same letter, the program will prompt them to try again. Once the user has guessed all of the correct letters in the word, the program will show the user the decrypted version of the word.

As the user plays the game, the program will show them how many lifes and which letters they have already guessed. The program will also show the current word with dashes that represent the letters that still need to be guessed and letters in place of the letters that were guessed correctly.

From the user's perspective, it will look like this once the program starts:

You have 10 lives left and you have used the following letters:

Current word: - - - - - -

And once the user starts guessing letters, it will look like this:

You have 10 lives left and you have used the following letters: A

Current word: A - A - - A

If the user guesses incorrectly, it will look like this:

Sorry, the letter you guessed is not in the word.

You have 9 lives left and you have used the following letters: A B

Current word: A - A - - A