Day 014 - Project 14 : 2 player rock paper scissors

Code Help 100 Days of Code
21

Thank you lol. Now we shall never speak about this again haha.

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The answer the user puts is invisible and it doesnt print the right text

print("Rock Paper Scissors  ")
print("R, P, or S")

from getpass import getpass as input

one = input("Player 1 > ")
two = input("Player 2 > ")

if one == "R" or "r" and two == "P" or "p":
  print("Player 2's paper smothers Player 1's rock!")
elif one == "R" or "r" and two == "S" or "s":
  print("Player 1's rock smashes Player 2's scissors!")
elif one == "R" or "r" and two == "R" or "r":
  print("Draw, no one wins!")
elif one == "S" or "s" and two == "S" or "s" :
  print("Draw, no one wins!")
elif one == "P" or "p" and two == "P" or "p" :
  print("Draw, no one wins!")
elif one == "P" or "p"  and two == "R" or "r":
  print("Player 1's paper smothers Player 2's rock!")
elif one == "P" or "p"  and two == "S" or "s":
  print("Player 2's scissors cut Player 1's paper to shreds!")
elif one == "S" or "s"  and two == "R" or "r":
  print("Player 2's rock smashes Player 1's scissors!")

elif one == "S" or "s" and two == "P" or "p":
  print("Player 1's scissors shred Player 2's paper to shreds")
else:
  print("Use R, P, or S next time" )
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Thatā€™s the point, so the other player canā€™t cheat.

So in Python, a non-empty string is always True. And Python is reading this like

if (one == "R") or ("r")

Since "r" will return True, it doesnā€™t care what the users inputted. Instead, use the .upper() method (makes the input uppercase, no matter what was actually inputted) like so:

one = input("Player 1 > ").upper()
two = input("Player 2 > ").upper()

if one == "R" and two == "P":
  print("Player 2's paper smothers Player 1's rock!")
elif one == "R" and two == "S":
  print("Player 1's rock smashes Player 2's scissors!")
elif one == two:
  print("Draw, no one wins!")
elif one == "P" and two == "R":
  print("Player 1's paper smothers Player 2's rock!")
elif one == "P" and two == "S":
  print("Player 2's scissors cut Player 1's paper to shreds!")
elif one == "S" and two == "R":
  print("Player 2's rock smashes Player 1's scissors!")

elif one == "S" and two == "P":
  print("Player 1's scissors shred Player 2's paper to shreds")
else:
  print("Use R, P, or S next time" )

I made the if statements a bit shorter, by the way.

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Thanks for the help :grinning:

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26

Thereā€™s a typo in 01- day 14 challenge.md:

WOW! Thatā€™s alot in just 13 days.

It should have been ā€œa lotā€ (2 words).

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I put together the following code for the Rock, Paper, Scissors game for the 100 days of code. As you can see I was attempting to assign R, P and S an integer and then make them greater than each other depending on which option should win. It would only return that playerOne wins, and I dont know why. Not sure if this is even possible to do this way but could someone tell me if this thinking is in the right direction? Thank you!

playerOne = input("Player One select your move (R, P or S)")
playerTwo = input("Player Two select your move (R, P or S)")
R = int(1)
P = int(2)
S = int(3)
R>S and R<P and P>R and P<S and S>P and S<R
if playerOne > playerTwo:
  print("Congrats Player One!")
elif playerTwo > playerOne:
  print("Congrats Player Two!")
else: 
  print("Try again.")
28

You can wrap text in triple backticks (```) to format as code.

If you want to go a more arithmetic approach, then it might be something like this (Iā€™ve tried doing it like that before):

R > S, S > P, P > S by the rules. You canā€™t easily substitute in three easy integers because of the cycle.
So, letā€™s say that the winner has a value 1 greater than the loser

R = 3
S = 2
P = 1

player = R
opponent = S
if player == opponent:
  print('tie')
elif player - opponent == 1:
  print('player wins')
else:
  print('opponent wins')

R - S == 1, S - P == 1, but P - R does not equal 1, it equals -2ā€¦ However, -2 is similar to 1, by mod 3. -2 % 3 == 1. (Mod, or modulus, is the remainder of a division operator. -2 divided by 3 is -1, with remainder 1.)
Soā€¦

if player == opponent:
  print('tie')
elif (player - opponent) % 3 == 1:
  print('player wins')
else:
  print('opponent wins')

Pretty silly. But it works I guess.

Equivalent alternative:

dif = (player - opponent) % 3
if dif == 0:
  print('tie')
elif dif == 1:
  print('player wins')
elif dif == 2:
  print('opponent wins')
else:
  raise ValueError
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