I don’t know where its adding to the counter within the code but its screwing everything up because I have a method to add a specific body part according to the counter (1 = head, etc). If anyone could find the error or give me a different way of doing it I’d really appreciate it!
//create new Console c = new Console (); f = new Console (); //declare variables String inputWord; //the word entered by player 1 that player 2 will guess char inputLetter; //the letter entered by player 2 that is the guess String category; //the category entered by player 1 which acts as a hint for player 2 String tempString = ""; //a temporary string variable that holds the guess, used to convert char to String so that we can use the replace method int numGuesses = 0; //counter which keeps track of the incorrect guesses StringBuffer blanks = new StringBuffer (""); //a string buffer object that prints out the "?"'s based on the length of the word entered by player 1 boolean isWinner; //used in main to check if player 2 has correctly guessed the word, then it will break //print instructions then clear them (working) instructions(); c.readLine(); c.clear(); //get word input from user (working) c.println("Player 1, please enter the word you would like Player 2 to guess. Please do not enter any spaces or punctuation. It will be deleted."); inputWord = c.readLine(); inputWord = inputWord.toUpperCase(); c.println("Please enter a category that your word falls under. Don't be too specific!"); category = c.readLine(); //print category in other console (working) f.println("Category: " + category); //draw underscores for each letter of the word (working) for (int i = 0; i < inputWord.length(); i++) { blanks = blanks.append("?"); }//rof //print the underscores out (working) f.print(blanks.toString()); //draw template (working) drawGallows(); //clear screen c.clear(); //prompt for user 2 to enter input c.println("Player 2, please enter your letter guess in uppercase."); c.println("If you think you know the word, just type it in!"); //main game loop whileLoop: while (numGuesses < 7) { c.println (numGuesses); //get letter guess from player 2 (working) inputLetter = c.readChar(); //converts the char to a string so we can use the StringBuffer method replace tempString = Character.toString(inputLetter); //if the letter is somewhere in the word then replace if (inputWord.indexOf(inputLetter) != -1) { //Loop to check every letter in word, outputs letter if letter is located in the word for (int i = 0; i < inputWord.length(); i++) { if (inputWord.charAt(i) == inputLetter) { //boolean isLetterdetected is true if theres a match //isLetterDetected = true; //replaces the underscore with the correctly guessed letter blanks.replace(i,i+1,tempString); //clear the screen f.clear(); //reprint the template and category drawGallows(); f.println("Category: " + category); //print the new stringbuffer f.print(blanks.toString()); }//fi }//rof }//fi //else the letter is not anywhere in the word so increase counter, and draw body part else { numGuesses++; c.println (numGuesses); drawBodyPart(numGuesses); } //check if player 2 has correctly solved the word forLoop: for (int i = 0; i < blanks.length(); i++) { if (blanks.indexOf("?") == -1) { isWinner = true; results (numGuesses, isWinner, inputWord); break whileLoop; }//fi else { break forLoop; }//esle }//rof }//elihw 