🎲 Project: a guessing game

The plan

1. The computer picks a secret number from 1 to 100
2. The player guesses
3. The computer says “too high” or “too low”
4. Repeat until the guess is right, then show how many tries it took

The code

import random

secret = random.randint(1, 100)
tries = 0
guess = 0

print("I picked a number from 1 to 100.")
while guess != secret:
    guess = int(input("Your guess: "))
    tries += 1
    if guess < secret:
        print("Too low!")
    elif guess > secret:
        print("Too high!")

print(f"You got it in {tries} tries!")

import random brings in Python’s random module. randint(1, 100) includes both 1 and 100.

Upgrades

Tip

💡 Smart strategy: always guess the middle (50, then 25 or 75…). You can always win in 7 guesses or fewer — that is binary search, a famous computer-science idea.

🧠 Quick quiz

Answer all 4 questions correctly to mark this lesson as done.