Adding a Scoring System to a Word Jumble Game

[DELB]

Hi,

I bought Mike Dawson's C++ Game Programming book on Amazon but I'm a little bit stuck on how to add a scoring system to the "Word Jumble" game within the book... so I was wondering if anyone on here could help me out if they would be ever so kind :-).

// Word Jumble.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	enum fields {WORD, HINT, NUM_FIELDS};
	const int NUM_WORDS = 5;
	const string WORDS[NUM_WORDS][NUM_FIELDS] =
	{
		{"wall", "Do you feel you're banging your head against something?"},
		{"glasses", "These might help you see the answer."},
		{"labored", "Going slowly, is it?"},
		{"persistent", "Keep at it."},
		{"jumble", "It's what the game is all about."}
	};

	srand(time(0));
	int choice = (rand() % NUM_WORDS);
	string theWord = WORDS[choice][WORD]; // word to guess
	string theHint = WORDS[choice][HINT]; // hint for word

	string jumble = theWord; // jumbled version of word
	int length = jumble.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
	{
		int index1 = (rand() % length);
		int index2 = (rand() % length);
		char temp = jumble[index1];
		jumble[index1] = jumble[index2];
		jumble[index2] = temp;
	}
		cout << "\t\t\tWelcome to Word Jumble!\n\n";
		cout << "Unscramble the letters to make a word.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'hint' for a hint.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'quit' to quit the game.\n\n";
		cout << "The jumble is: " << jumble;

		string guess;
		cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
		cin >> guess;

		while ((guess != theWord) && (guess != "quit"))
		{
			if (guess == "hint")
				cout << theHint;
			else
				cout << "Sorry, that's not it.";

			cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
			cin >> guess;
		}
		{
			if (guess == theWord)
				cout << "\nThat's it!  You guessed it!\n";

			cout << "\nThanks for playing.\n";

			system("Pause");

			return 0;
		}
	system("Pause");
	return 0;
}

How can I go about adding the code? Hints/tips would be great -- thank you.

[venkyHyd]

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
				cout << "\t\t\tWelcome to Word Jumble!\n\n";
		cout << "Unscramble the letters to make a word.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'hint' for a hint.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'quit' to quit the game.\n\n";
		infinite_loop:
	enum fields {WORD, HINT, NUM_FIELDS};
	const int NUM_WORDS = 5;
	const string WORDS[NUM_WORDS][NUM_FIELDS] =
	{
		{"wall", "Do you feel you're banging your head against something?"},
		{"glasses", "These might help you see the answer."},
		{"labored", "Going slowly, is it?"},
		{"persistent", "Keep at it."},
		{"jumble", "It's what the game is all about."}
	};

	srand(time(0));
	int choice = (rand() % NUM_WORDS);
	string theWord = WORDS[choice][WORD]; // word to guess
	string theHint = WORDS[choice][HINT]; // hint for word

	string jumble = theWord; // jumbled version of word
	int length = jumble.size();

		
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
	{
		int index1 = (rand() % length);
		int index2 = (rand() % length);
		char temp = jumble[index1];
		jumble[index1] = jumble[index2];
		jumble[index2] = temp;
	}

			
		cout << "The jumble is: " << jumble;

		string guess;
		cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
		cin >> guess;

		while ((guess != theWord) && (guess != "quit"))
		{
			if (guess == "hint")
				cout << theHint;
			else
				cout << "Sorry, that's not it.";

			cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
			cin >> guess;
		}
		{
			if (guess == theWord)
				cout << "\nThat's it!  You guessed it!\n";

			cout << "\nThanks for playing.\n";

			system("Pause");
if (guess != "quit")
goto infinite_loop;
			return 0;
		}
	system("Pause");
	return 0;
}

i think u are asking this solution...

[cire]

venkyHyd wrote:

i think u are asking this solution...

I don't think "How can I add scoring" translates to "bastardize my code with goto and solve a non-existent problem."

@OP - You could keep track of the number of guesses it takes to get the correct answer and subtract that from whatever value you've decided is appropriate for the word.

[DELB]

// Word Jumble.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;

int score = 10;
int nofguess = 0;
enum fields {WORD, HINT, NUM_FIELDS};
const int NUM_WORDS = 5;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	const string WORDS[NUM_WORDS][NUM_FIELDS] =
	{
		{"wall", "Do you feel you're banging your head against something?"},
		{"glasses", "These might help you see the answer."},
		{"labored", "Going slowly, is it?"},
		{"persistent", "Keep at it."},
		{"jumble", "It's what the game is all about."}
	};

	srand(time(0));
	int choice = (rand() % NUM_WORDS);
	string theWord = WORDS[choice][WORD]; // word to guess
	string theHint = WORDS[choice][HINT]; // hint for word

	string jumble = theWord; // jumbled version of word
	int length = jumble.size();
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
	{
		int index1 = (rand() % length);
		int index2 = (rand() % length);
		char temp = jumble[index1];
		jumble[index1] = jumble[index2];
		jumble[index2] = temp;
	}
		cout << "\t\t\tWelcome to Word Jumble!\n\n";
		cout << "The score for all words is 10, try not to get it at 0\n.";
		cout << "Unscramble the letters to make a word.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'hint' for a hint.\n";
		cout << "Enter 'quit' to quit the game.\n\n";
		cout << "The jumble is: " << jumble;
		nofguess = 0;

		string guess;
		cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
		cin >> guess;
		nofguess++;

		while ((guess != theWord) && (guess != "quit"))
		{
			if (guess == "hint")
				cout << theHint;
			else
				cout << "Sorry, that's not it.";

			cout << "\n\nYour guess: ";
			cin >> guess;
			nofguess++;
		}
		{
			if (guess == theWord)
				cout << "Your final score is: " << score - nofguess;
				cout << "\nThat's it!  You guessed it!\n";
			cout << "\nThanks for playing.\n";
		}

			if (score - nofguess <= 0)
			{
				"Bad luck, you're not that great at guessing I guess.";
			}
	system("Pause");
	return 0;
}

Does this look right?

[venkyHyd]

sorry i misunderstood...you are right DELB

[AbstractionAnon]

Your use of enum fields {WORD, HINT, NUM_FIELDS}; is somewhat unusual. It works, but only because the values are 0, 1, and 2 respectively.

Rather than replying on the specific indexes into WORDS, a more conventional approach is the following:

struct words
{ string word;
   string hint;
} WORDS[NUM_WORDS] = { ... };

This lets the compiler keep track of the individual fields rather than having to worry about indexing them yourself.