[Help] Basic Java GuessingGame

[replaywork]

Hello, I'm trying to sort the highscore at the end, by making players with the less number of tries come first and so on.. I've been trying different things for hours now.. but it didn't seem to work. Please Help me!

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package GuessGame;

/**
 *
 * @author ToMz
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import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class GuessGame {
static ArrayList<Integer> score = new ArrayList<Integer>();
static ArrayList<String> playern = new ArrayList<String>();

public static void main(String[] args) {

    // create a random number

int number = (int)(Math.random() * 10 + 1);

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Try guessing a number between 1 and 10");

int guess = -1; 
int tries = 0;

    // where the loop starts

while (guess != number) {

tries++;

    // the user's number input

System.out.println("Enter your guess: ");

    // only allow digits

while (!input.hasNextInt()) {
    System.out.println("You have entered invaid value! Try again.");
    input.next();
}
guess = input.nextInt();

    // conditions

if (guess < 1 || guess > 10) {
System.out.println(guess + " is not what the system's expected, try again."); 
}
else if (guess == number) {
System.out.println(number + " is correct!");
}
else if (guess > number) {
System.out.println(guess + " is too high. Try again!");
}
else if (guess < number) {
System.out.println(guess + " is too low. Better luck next time!");
}

    // where the loop ends
}

System.out.println("You have guessed " + tries + " time(s)");

    // asking for the user's name

System.out.println("Please enter your name: ");
String name = input.next();

    // creating high score

score.add(tries) ;
playern.add(name);

    //show the scores

System.out.println("History");
System.out.println("Try(s)" + "\t\t" + "Player(s)");

for (int j = 0; j < score.size(); j++){
System.out.println(score.get(j) + "\t\t" + playern.get(j));
} 


    // continue or out

System.out.println("Do you want to try again? (y/n)");
String answer = input.next();

    // conditions for y and n

if ("y".equals(answer)) { 
main(null);
}
else if ("n".equals(answer)) {
System.out.println("Session Terminated");
System.exit(0);
}
else {
System.out.println("GET THE HELL OUT, TROLL");

        }
    // where the conditions end

    }

}

[Fubarable]

Your problem is that you're looping through your program again by calling the main method recursively, that is, you're calling the main method from within the main method. When you do this, all the variables declared inside of main get re-declared and everything starts anew. Solution: don't do this. Instead repeat the game by putting it into a do-while loop. Use a boolean variable to decide whether or not to keep on playing (in fact you can call it keepOnPlaying) and set it to false if the user types in "n" or "N".

[replaywork]

Thank you! I found another different solution but then another comes up.. I am now trying to sort the highscore at the end, by making players with the less number of tries come first and so on. But it doesn't seem to be working at all.. please help me!

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class GuessGame {
static ArrayList<Integer> score = new ArrayList<Integer>();
static ArrayList<String> playern = new ArrayList<String>();

public static void main(String[] args) {

    // create a random number

int number = (int)(Math.random() * 10 + 1);

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Try guessing a number between 1 and 10");

int guess = -1; 
int tries = 0;

    // where the loop starts

while (guess != number) {

tries++;

    // the user's number input

System.out.println("Enter your guess: ");

    // only allow digits

while (!input.hasNextInt()) {
    System.out.println("You have entered invaid value! Try again.");
    input.next();
}
guess = input.nextInt();

    // conditions

if (guess < 1 || guess > 10) {
System.out.println(guess + " is not what the system's expected, try again."); 
}
else if (guess == number) {
System.out.println(number + " is correct!");
}
else if (guess > number) {
System.out.println(guess + " is too high. Try again!");
}
else if (guess < number) {
System.out.println(guess + " is too low. Better luck next time!");
}

    // where the loop ends
}

System.out.println("You have guessed " + tries + " time(s)");

    // asking for the user's name

System.out.println("Please enter your name: ");
String name = input.next();

    // creating high score

score.add(tries) ;
playern.add(name);

    //show the scores

System.out.println("History");
System.out.println("Try(s)" + "\t\t" + "Player(s)");

for (int j = 0; j < score.size(); j++){
System.out.println(score.get(j) + "\t\t" + playern.get(j));
} 


    // continue or out

System.out.println("Do you want to try again? (y/n)");
String answer = input.next();

    // conditions for y and n

if ("y".equals(answer)) { 
main(null);
}
else if ("n".equals(answer)) {
System.out.println("Session Terminated");
System.exit(0);
}
else {
System.out.println("GET THE HELL OUT, TROLL");

        }
    // where the conditions end

    }

}

[Fubarable]

Your "different" solution is faulty. Again, do not use recursion, and do not try to use static variables as a kludge to perpetuate this mistake.