Thanks for your help! I tried using your method and got the following. It sorta works as it either says you got it right or wrong. However I don't know how to make it go back to the beginning if they got it right. It just sort of sits there until you make 4 more wrong guesses after you make it right.

What do I need to do?

while (1)
{
   
   ###########
   # Heart of the game- Choose and scramble a word
   ###########
   my $word = $words[rand @words];

   my @scramble = split(//, $word);

   @scramble = sort { (-1,1)[rand 2] } @scramble;

   print "\n\nGuess the scrambled word: ";
   foreach (@scramble) {print $_};
   print "\n\n";


   my $attempts = 0;

   while ($attempts++ < $max_attempts)
   {

      #####
      # Take their guess
      #####
      my $guess = <STDIN>;
      chomp($guess);

      if ($guess ne "$word")
      {
         print "$guess is incorrect.\n";
         $attempts++;
      }
      else
      {
        print "Congratulations!  The scrambled word was $word.\n\n";
      }
   }
   
}

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In reply to Re^2: setup of a small perl game by Anonymous Monk
in thread setup of a small perl game by Anonymous Monk

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