I'm extremely new to programming, and I hope someone could help me.
I'm trying to make a game where 2 players need to input words based on the last 2 letters of the word the other player placed into.
I got that part to work, but I cannot get the part which decides the winner. It's the same 2 elif statements but they should print out different results.
Ex. P1: banana P2: narnia P1:ian P2:animal So basically when one of the players fails to accomplish the task of matching the last 2 letters they lose the game
used_words=[]
while True:
player_one=raw_input("Player one \n")
first= list(player_one)
player_two=raw_input("Player two \n")
second=list(player_two)
if first[-2:] == second[:2] and first and second not in used_words:
used_words.append(player_one)
used_words.append(player_two)
continue
elif first[-2:] != second[:2]:
print "Player one wins! \n"
print "The word you had to match was: ", second
break
elif second[:2] != first[-2:]:
print "Player two wins!"
print "The word you had to match was: ", first
break
else:
break
I think the problem is in your conditional if first[-2:] == second[:2] and first and second not in used_words: because and first basically is testing that first is not an empty string, so change it to if first[-2:] == second[:2] and first not in used_words and second not in used_words:. However, there are other change that should make in order to achiever what you want:
player_one = raw_input("Player one \n")
used_words = [player_one]
while True:
player_two = raw_input("Player two \n")
if used_words[-1][-2:] != player_two[:2] and player_two not in used_words:
print "Player one wins! \n"
print "The word you had to match was: ", player_one
break
used_words.append(player_two)
player_one = raw_input("Player one \n")
if used_words[-1][-2:] != player_one[:2] and player_one not in used_words:
print "Player two wins! \n"
print "The word you had to match was: ", player_two
break