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copied!<p>Two problems:</p> <ol> <li>You are missing a squirly bracket before your last while in your outer do while loop.</li> <li>You need to initialize the "playAgain" char when you declare it.</li> </ol> <p>;</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace ConsoleApplication3 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { // SETUP SESSION // Declare variables Int32 currentGuess, upperLimit, randomNumber; double maxGuesses; char playAgain = 'n'; Random random = new Random(); // WELCOME THE USER Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the high/low guessing game."); //INITILIZE WIN COUNT AND GAME COUNT Int32 gameCount = 0, winCount = 0; //DO LOOP #1 do //SETUP GAME { //REQUEST USER FOR UPPER LIMIT Console.WriteLine("Enter Upper range (e.g. 100):"); upperLimit = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); //INITILIZE GUESS COUNT Int32 guessCount = 0; bool gameOver = false; //DETERMINE RANDOM NUMBER randomNumber = random.Next(1, upperLimit); //DETERMINE MAX GUESSES maxGuesses = Math.Ceiling(Math.Log(upperLimit, 2) - 1); // INFORM USER RANDOM NUMBER IS CHOSEN AND INDICATE NUMBER OF GUESSES ALLOWED Console.WriteLine("I picked a number between 1 and {0} you get {1} chances to guess it", upperLimit, maxGuesses); //DO LOOP #2 do { //PLAY GAME //READ GUESSES Console.WriteLine(string.Format(" Enter Guess {0}: ", guessCount)); currentGuess = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); if (currentGuess == randomNumber) { //INCRIMENT WIN COUNT winCount++; } if (currentGuess == randomNumber) { Console.WriteLine("You got it!"); gameOver = true; gameCount++; } else if (currentGuess > randomNumber) { Console.WriteLine("Too High"); } else if (currentGuess < randomNumber) { Console.WriteLine("Too Low"); } } while (guessCount < maxGuesses && gameOver == false); //POST PROCESSING GAME if (guessCount++ == maxGuesses) { //INCRIMENT GAME COUNT gameCount++; Console.WriteLine("You lost"); //DISPLAY CORRECT NUMBER IF TOO MANY INCORRECT GUESSES Console.WriteLine("\nThe number was {0},better luck next time!", randomNumber); guessCount = 1; //PROMPT TO PLAY AGAIN Console.WriteLine("Would you like to play again? (Y/N)"); playAgain = char.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); } } while (playAgain == 'y' || playAgain == 'Y'); // display win count Console.WriteLine("Thanks for playing, you won {0} out of {1} games", winCount, gameCount); Console.ReadLine(); } } } </code></pre>

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