Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be building a word guessing game in command line using random module in python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

from random import randint

file = open('words.txt','r')
words = file.readlines()
length = len(words)

def getRandomWord():
    random_no = randint(0,length)
    word = words[random_no].strip()
    return word 


def gamePlay(random_word):
    chances = 7
    is_found = False
    gussed_letters = []
    guess = ''
    print(' '+'_ '*len(random_word)+'\n')
    while chances>0:
        guess = input('Guess the letter or the Entire word: ')
        if guess==random_word:
            is_found = True
        else:
            if guess in gussed_letters :
                print(f"You have already gussed the letter {guess}..try something else\n")
                continue
            print(' ',end='')
            is_current_guess = False
            for letter in random_word:
                if letter == guess :
                    is_current_guess = True
                    gussed_letters.append(letter)
                    print(letter,end=' ')
                    if len(random_word) == len(gussed_letters):
                        is_found = True
                elif letter in gussed_letters:
                    print(letter,end=' ')
                else:
                    print('_',end=' ')  
            print()     
        if is_found:
            print(f"Congrats your guess was correct, the word was '{random_word}'\n")       
            break
        if not is_current_guess:
            print(f'{guess} is not in word')
            chances-=1
            print(f'You have {chances} chances remaining\n')

    if not is_found:
        print(f"\n Sorry your guesses were wrong, the word was '{random_word}'\n")      


def main():
    print(" Word Guessing Game ".center(60,'-'))
    while True:
        random_word = getRandomWord()
        gamePlay(random_word)
        choice = input("Do You Wanna Play(yes/no) :")
        if choice in ['no','No','NO','n','N']:
            break


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Now make an words.txt file inside the root directory and copy paste the following words to it

words.txt

chart
arena
spite
twist
crowd
front
shark
spill
tempt
merit
floor
still
child
climb
ridge
sweat
rumor
staff
whole
forge
aisle
snake
guilt
brush
noble
smile
drown
prove
sweet
rough
shape
blind
split
trial
touch
reach
jewel
shame
title
debut
choke
stool
opera
throw
peace
terms
blade
cycle
exile
judge
train
chalk
rider
field
climb
rifle
union
organ
sheep
shine
album
money
craft
clock
pride
blast
knock
close
white
south
motif
break
smile
enfix
leave
mercy
split
crown
shelf
learn
funny
Koran
trend
first
aloof
guilt
draft
beard
troop
watch
X-ray
proof
noble
night
strap
class
penny
bride
space
tower

Now if you execute the python script by typing the below command

python app.py