How do I pull individual words from a list when needed?

Question

#Word Jumble Game

import random
import string

def jumbled():
words = ['Jumble', 'Star']#, 'Candy', 'Wings', 'Power', 'String', 'Shopping', 'Blonde', 'Steak', 'Speakers', 'Case', 'Stubborn', 'Cat', 'Marker', 'Elevator', 'Taxi', 'Eight', 'Tomato', 'Penguin', 'Custard']
count = 0    
loop = True
loop2 = True
while loop:
    word = string.lower(random.choice(words)
    jumble = list(word)
    random.shuffle(jumble)
    scrambled = "".join(jumble) 
    while loop2:
        print '\n',scrambled,'\n'
        guess = raw_input('Guess the word: ')
        quit = set(['quit','Quit'])
        choice = 'quit'
        if guess.lower() == word:    
            print '\nCorrect!'
            count+=1
            print "You took",count,"trie(s) in order to get the right answer",jumbled()
        else:
            print '\nTry again!\n'
            count+=1
            if count == 3:
                if words[0]*2:
                    print "It looks like you're having trouble!"
                    print 'Your hint is: %s'(words) # I'm trying to pull a word from the above list here.



jumbled()

So here I am, playing a game I've programmed that chooses a random word from the list, mixes it up then I have to correctly guess it. This process works and if I get it wrong, I will get a message saying to try again and if correct, will congratulate me then onto the next word!

A problem I'm having is that I want to be able to give a hint if the user incorrectly guesses after 3 times. However, if the program gives me, say 'jumble' as a word that I have to guess and I guess it wrong 3 times, I would like a hint based off that word. I can't get the word star then a hint that has to do with jumble, can I?

With the code I have now (I have commented what line I'm having trouble with), I get an error saying that the string is not callable, I don't know what to call...

Please help!

If it's not too much trouble, I also need to be able to type in quit then the game would quit itself, unfortunately, I don't know how to do this.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You have the unjumbled word in word so you could for example use

print 'Your hint is: %s'%word

Very easy hint though

You could make a dict to map words to clues eg

hint_dict = {'Jumble': 'Name of this game.", "Star": ...}

and then use

print 'Your hint is: %s'%hint_dict[word]