Xtykutl

I am working on a number guessing game for python3 and the end goal of this is to show the user if they play more than one game that they'll receive an average number of guesses. However, I am unable to record how many times the game actually runs. Any help will do.

from random import randint

import sys



def guessinggame():

    STOP = '='

    a = '>'

    b = '<'

    guess_count = 0

    lowest_number = 1

    gamecount = 0

    highest_number = 100

    while True: 

        guess = (lowest_number+highest_number)//2

        print("My guess is :", guess)

        user_guess = input("Is your number greater than,less than, or equal to: ")

        guess_count += 1

        if user_guess == STOP:

            break

        if user_guess == a:

            lowest_number = guess + 1            

        elif user_guess == b:

            highest_number = guess - 1

    print("Congrats on BEATING THE GAME! I did it in ", guess_count, "guesses")

    PLAY_AGAIN = input("Would you like to play again? y or n: ")

    yes = 'y'

    gamecount = 0

    no = 'n'

    if PLAY_AGAIN == yes:

        guessinggame()

        gamecount = gamecount + 1

    else:

        gamecount += 1

        print("thank you for playing!")

        print("You played", gamecount , "games")

        sys.exit(0)

    return guess_count, gamecount



print('Hello! What is your name?')

myname = input()



print('Well', myname, ', I want you to think of number in your head and I will guess it.')

print("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------")

print("RULES:                 if the number is correct simply input '='")

print("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------")

print("                  if YOUR number is GREATER then the output, input '>'")

print("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------")

print("                  if YOUR number is LESS then the output, input '<'")

print("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------")

print("                                ALRIGHT LETS PLAY")

print("---------------------------------------------------------------------------------")







guessinggame()

guess_count = guessinggame()

print(" it took me this many number of guesses: ", guess_count)





## each game the user plays is added one to it

## when the user wants to the game to stop they finish it and

## prints number of games they played as well as the average of guess it took

## it would need to take the number of games and add all the guesses together and divide it.

It is because you are either calling guessinggame() everytime user wants to play again or you are exiting the program. Also you are setting gamecount to 0 every time you call guessinggame(). You should move gamecount declaration and initialization out of your function. Also increment gamecount before you call guessinggame().