Combining our various suggestions and in the interests of TIMTOWTDI I offer the following:

use warnings;
use strict;

my %moods = (
    good => ["nfs", "nfsII", "With the PerlMonks", "Morrowind", "TES C
+onstructor Set"],
    bad  => ["RedFactionII", "CCG", "RavenShield", "AGG"],
    );

my $mood;

while (1) {
    print "How has your day been?\n";
    $mood = <STDIN>;
    chomp $mood;
    $mood = lc $mood;
    last if exists $moods{$mood};
}

my $gamesRef = $moods{$mood};
my $randgame = $gamesRef->[rand @$gamesRef];
print "You should play: $randgame\n";

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which gives the hash an improved name and better facilitates a solution to homework problem 2.

Panda should note the use of the if as a statement modifier in last if ... and the alternate syntax used for dereferencing the array ref ($gamesRef->). Note too that the {} brackets are not required for @$gamesRef.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^2: Decisiveness for Gamers by GrandFather
in thread Decisiveness for Gamers by Panda

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