Question

MATLAB

Program a Matlab version of Guess the Word. The word should be determined by user input.
Once the word is determined, the game should begin by displaying blanks (-) where
all the letters of the word are. The game should then continue to prompt the player to
guess a letter in the word. If the player guesses a letter that is in the word and not
already displayed, that letter should be displayed everywhere it appears in the word.
If the player guesses a letter that is not in the word or a letter that is in the word
but has been guessed before, one try should be added. This should continue until the player completes either the word or until they have reached 6 tries, at which point the game should end which the message: "You ran out of tries and lost."

Answer 1

MATLAB CODE:

% Get the word to guess from the user

secretWord = input('Enter the word: ', 's');

guessedWord = secretWord;

% Clear the screen to hide the word

clc;

% Encode the guessed word with '-'

for i = 1:length(secretWord)

    guessedWord(i) = '-';

end

% Number of tries

tries = 0;

while true

    % Display word

    fprintf('Word to guess: %s\n\n', guessedWord);

    letter = input('Guess a letter in the word: ', 's');

    correctGuess = false;

    for i = 1:length(secretWord)

        if letter == secretWord(i) && guessedWord(i) == '-'

            guessedWord(i) = letter;

            correctGuess = true;

        end

    end

    % If word has been guessed successfully

    if secretWord == guessedWord

        fprintf('Congrats! You Won!\n');

        break;

    end

    % If user's input letter is incorrect

    if ~correctGuess

        tries = tries + 1;

        fprintf('Incorrect guess.\n');

    end

    % If number of tries becomes 6

    if tries == 6

        fprintf('Sorry, you have reached a max of 6 tries\n');

        fprintf('You lose!\n');

        break;

    end

end

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