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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

by Ivo Balbaert
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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A number-guessing game

Now we have all the building blocks needed for our game. 

From the previous chapter, we already know how to pick a random number between 1 and 99, and how to seed this so that each time, the program gives another secret-number:

;-- see Chapter04/guess-number.red:random/seed now/timesecret-number: random 99

Getting input from the user is done with ask; we saw a code snippet for this in the Stopping a program section. The user is allowed to guess a certain number of times, say, 10 times, and this number is stored in max-number-of-guesses. So all the code with its input and further logic must be executed in a loop with that particular number of iterations:

loop max-number-of-guesses [ code ]

We also keep track of the  ...

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