Merge pull request #29 from kirkland-signature/show-guesses

Track guesses and prompt when player has reused a guess

hangman-cli/hangman.py

@@ -18,18 +18,30 @@ def welcome_screen():
 def hangman(word):
     welcome_screen()
     system("clear")
+    used_letters = []
     lives = 6
     board = "*"*len(word)
+
+    def prompt_with_message(message):
+        print(f"{message}\nYou still have {lives} lives. Guess again!")
+        return input()
+
     while lives:
-        print(f'You have {lives} lives. Guess a word. \nCurrent board\n{board}')
+        print(f'You have {lives} lives. Guess a word. \nCurrent board',
+            f'(guessed letters: {" ".join(used_letters)})' if used_letters else '',
+            f'\n{board}')
         guess = input()
         # If guess is more than 1 character, prompt to try again
         while len(guess) != 1:
-            print(
-                f"You can only guess with 1 character\nYou still have {lives} lives. Guess again!")
-            guess = input()
+            guess = prompt_with_message("You can only guess with 1 character")
         # If character exist in word, then don't lose a life
         character_exist = False
+        # If the player has reused a guess, prompt to try again
+        while guess in used_letters:
+            guess = prompt_with_message("You have already used this letter.")
+
+        used_letters += guess
+
         for i in range(len(word)):
             if guess == word[i]:
                 # Keep everything before and after index but replace at index