Hello! I am making a guessing game where the program guesses a number one through ten and the user inputs "high", "low", or "right". If the input is "high" the program guesses a lower number. If the input is "low" the program guesses a higher number. If the input is "right" the program prints a message and how many tries it took. I can get it to guess numbers but it doesn't guess lower if I type "high" and it doesn't guess higher if I type "low". My code is below. 

use strict;
my ($number, $new_guess, $my_hint, @guesses, $count);
my $range = 9;
$number = int(rand($range+1)); #min of 1 and high of 10, range does 0-
+given int so i made the range 9 (0-9) and added one to it -> (1-10)
print "My guess is: $number \n";
print "High, low, or right?\n";
while($my_hint ne "right"){
chomp($my_hint = <STDIN>);
@guesses[$count] = $my_hint;
    if ($my_hint eq "low"){
        $new_guess = int(rand($number));
        print "I guess: " . $new_guess . "\n";
        print "High, low, or right?\n";
    }
    elsif ($my_hint eq "high"){    
        $new_guess = int(rand($number));
        print "I guess: " . $new_guess . "\n";
        print "High, low, or right?\n";
    }
    elsif ($my_hint eq "right"){
        print "It took me " . scalar @guesses . " tries\n"; 
    }
    else{
        print "What? Am I high, low, or right?\n";
    }    
    foreach $number (@guesses){
    $count++;
}
}

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