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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by jrmcintyre
jrmcintyre
4,892 Points

Syntax error

There is a syntax error at the bottom else statement on the closing bracket Please help

My code

var correctGuess = false; var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6 ) + 1; var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?'); if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber ) { correctGuess = true; } else if ( parseInt(guess) < randomNumber) { var guessMore = prompt('Try again. The number im thinking of is more than ' + guess); if ( parseInt(guessMore) === randomNumber ) { correctGuess = true; } else if ( parseInt(guess) > randomNumber) { var guessLess = prompt('Try again. The number I was thinking of is less than ' + guess); } if (parseInt(guessLess) === randomNumber) { correctGuess = true; } if ( correctGuess ) { document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>'); } else { document.write('<p>The number was ' + randomNumber + ' .</p>'); }

2 Answers

Shawn Rieger
Shawn Rieger
9,916 Points
Shawn Rieger
Shawn Rieger
9,916 Points

You're missing the closing curly bracket for your else if

var correctGuess = false;
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1;
var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?');
if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) {
  correctGuess = true;
} else if (parseInt(guess) < randomNumber) { // <--- this was left open
  var guessMore = prompt('Try again. The number im thinking of is more than ' + guess);
  if (parseInt(guessMore) === randomNumber) {
    correctGuess = true;
  } else if (parseInt(guess) > randomNumber) {
    var guessLess = prompt('Try again. The number I was thinking of is less than ' + guess);
  }
  if (parseInt(guessLess) === randomNumber) {
    correctGuess = true;
  }
  if (correctGuess) {
    document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
  } else {
    document.write('<p>The number was ' + randomNumber + ' .</p>');
  }
} // <--- closing it should resolve your syntax error
Daniel Salvatori
Daniel Salvatori
2,658 Points
Daniel Salvatori
Daniel Salvatori
2,658 Points

Thank you, I was having the same issue.