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Word Guessing Game Assignment Help Needed.

This C++ (I'm using Visual Studio 2015) assignment is actually kind of confusing to me. I keep getting lost in all of the words even though these are supposed to instruct me as to how to do this. Can I please get some help as to where to start?

Word guessing game: Overview: Create a game in which the user has a set number of tries to correctly guess a word. I highly recommend the use of vectors for this assignment. Win condition: If the user correctly guesses and reveals all of the letters, the guessing will end and print "You win" and reveal the word. Loss condition: The user will only see a "game over" print and be revealed the word. Required functionality:

Main() Should contain the following variables: two vectors chars. One array named answer to hold a word for the user to guess. the second an exact same sized char vector initialized all to the "*" character an int named guesses initialized to double the size of your size variable. an int named revealed initialized to zero. a char named guess initialized to '0'. This should contain the base functionality of the game. A loop should control the game and check if guesses are greater than zero and revealed is less than size. Don't forget to use the vector.size() function to get the vector's size. Ask the user for a guess and call check guess. if check guess returns true, let the user know they revealed a letter and call revealLetter(). decrement guesses by one as now a turn has been consumed. Do this outside of any conditional logic above^ perform a check to see if revealed == size to see if the user revealed all the letters.

display() - This function is called anytime the contents of the vector needs to be printed on the screen.

checkGuess() - This function will return if a match is found in the answer vector passed into it. You will need to pass the user's guess to compare, the correct answer vector. This function might not make sense to you at first, but try to use this as a utility function. If it's still confusing, try doing reveal letter first and see if this still feels necessary. This might also be a good function to check for the user guessing a letter that's already been revealed. Just a thought!

revealLetter() - This void function should be passed the matching guess char, the answer vector, the word vector, and REFERENCE to "revealed" so it can be iterated. This function should look through the answer vector and find the matching element between the user's guess and the answer vector. Copy the answer element data into the word array at that exact position to simulate revealing the letter. Lastly, increment revealed.

This is all I have so far,

int main ()

{

const int size = 1;
   char answer[] = "tester";
   char ansdot[] = "******";
   int guesses = size*2;
   char guess = 0;

   return 0;

}

Once again, I need some help to start this project. That is all, Thank you.

Answer 1

// C++ program to create and implement Word Guessing game

#include <iostream>

#include <vector>

using namespace std;

// function declaration

void display(vector<char> userGuess);

bool checkGuess(char guess, vector<char> answer);

void revealLetter(char guess, vector<char> answer, vector<char> &userAnswer, int &revealed);

int main() {

               int size = 6;

               char answer[] = "tester";

               vector<char> word(size) ;

               vector<char> userAnswer(size);

               for(size_t i=0;i < userAnswer.size();i++)

               {

                              word[i] = answer[i];

                              userAnswer[i] = '*';

               }

               int guesses = 2*size;

               int revealed = 0;

               char guess = '0';

               // loop that continues till all guesses are exhausted or the word is guessed

               while(guesses > 0 && revealed < size)

               {

                              cout<<"Word : ";

                              display(userAnswer);

                              cout<<"Guess a letter : ";

                              cin>>guess;

                              if(checkGuess(guess,word))

                              {

                                             revealLetter(guess,word,userAnswer,revealed);

                              }

                              --guesses;

               }

               if(revealed == size)

                              cout<<"You win. The word was : ";

               else

                              cout<<"Game over. The word was : ";

               display(word);

               return 0;

}

// function to display a vector

void display(vector<char> inVec)

{

               for(size_t i =0;i<inVec.size();i++)

                              cout<<inVec[i];

               cout<<endl;

}

// function to check if a letter is present in the word to be guessed

bool checkGuess(char guess, vector<char> answer)

{

               for(size_t i=0;i<answer.size();i++)

                              if(answer[i] == guess)

                                             return true;

               return false;

}

// function to update user guess

void revealLetter(char guess, vector<char> answer, vector<char> &userAnswer, int &revealed)

{

               for(size_t i=0;i<answer.size();i++)

               {

                              if(answer[i] == guess)

                              {

                                             userAnswer[i] = guess;

                                             revealed++;

                              }

               }

}

//end of program

Output: