YR10 Programming HW 3 – Snowman Guessing Game
Snowman is an alternative version of the game ‘hangman’. In the game a word is selected and those
playing the game guess the letters that could be in the word. When a player guesses a correct letter
the position(s) of this letter in the word are revealed. When a player guesses incorrectly an attempt
is used and part of the snowman is drawn.
1). The program chooses a random word from a list of words. In easy mode, this should be 5 letters
or less, in medium mode, this should be between 6 & 10 letters (inclusive). In difficult mode, the
word selected is 11 or more letters.
2). Once the word is selected – the user is shown the number of letters in underscore form. E.g is
“snowball” was selected, the user would see _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
3). The user keeps guessing letters, or, if they are feeling brave, the whole word. If they guess a
single letter and they are correct, reveal where that letter is within the word. E.g if the user guessed
“L” in snowball then the display would be _ _ _ _ _ _ L L
4). If they guess more than one letter, treat this as a guess of the word itself. Either they are totally
correct, or totally wrong.
5). The case of the guesses doesn’t matter (so ‘l’ is the same as ‘L’)
6). Each time a user guesses a wrong letter, display the previously incorrect letters alongside the
hidden word. Don’t let them guess this letter again. For either a wrong letter or a wrong word guess,
show that an attempt has been used displaying the following stages of a snowman being built by
using ascii art:
1). Bottom snowball
( . )
._ _ _ _ _ _ _.
2). Middle snowball
--<( . )>---
( . )
._ _ _ _ _ _ _.
3). Head snowball
( ‘ v ‘ )
--<( . )>---
( . )
._ _ _ _ _ _ _.
4). Top hat
_ _ _
_|_ _ _|_
( ‘ v ‘ )
--<( . )>---
( . )
._ _ _ _ _ _ _.
How and when to upload
Due 8:00am Mon 15th Jan 2024
1). Upload your file with the following name
USERNAME_Snowman.py
e.g 23BobF_Snowman.py
2). You should test your program to make sure that you have
not created any errors.
3). The output to your program should be EXACTLY the same
as the example programs provided to you.
