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require ‘io/console’ class Game attr_accessor :mystery_word, :mystery_word_array, :blanks_array, :letter, :fish_tank def initialize puts «Welcome to Word Guess! It works like hangman.» puts puts «Player 1 will be the guesser.» puts «Player 2, what do you want the mystery word to be?» @mystery_word = STDIN.noecho(&:gets).chomp @mystery_word_array = mystery_word.split(«») @blanks_array = mystery_word_array.fill («_ «) @letter = letter @fish_tank = [ « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \_|__________________/ | | | ><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», # #fish after 1 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 2 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 3 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 4 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 5 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 6 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________», #fish after 7 wrong guesses « ________________________________________________________________________________ \ | / \|__________________/ | | | .·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·..·´¯`·.><(((º> ~J ________________________________________________________________________________»] #introduction puts puts «This is your fish: ><(((º> « puts puts «Try to prevent Fishy from being caught by the fisherman.» puts puts @fish_tank[0] puts puts «Every time you make an incorrect letter guess, Fishy will swim closer to the hook. If Fishy reaches the hook, Fishy will be eaten. Good luck!» puts end #end of initialize #ask the user to guess a letter def ask counter = 0 guesses = [] until @blanks_array.join(«») == mystery_word || counter == fish_tank.length puts @blanks_array.join(«») puts «The letters you’ve guessed are: #{guesses.sort.join(«, «)}« puts «Which letter would you like to guess?» @letter = gets.chomp @letter.downcase! alphabet_array = [*(‘a’..‘z’)] if alphabet_array.include? letter if guesses.include? letter puts «You’ve already guessed that letter!» else guesses.push (@letter) if @mystery_word.include?(letter) puts «Yes, there is at least one #{@letter} in the mystery word.» #replace the blanks in the mystery with the guessed letter if @mystery_word.count(letter) > 1 puts «Turns out there are #{@mystery_word.count(letter)} #{@letter}‘s'» index1 = @mystery_word.index(@letter) index2 = @mystery_word.rindex(@letter) @blanks_array[index1] = @letter @blanks_array[index2] = @letter puts @blanks_array.join(«») else index1 = @mystery_word.index(@letter) @blanks_array[index1] = @letter puts @blanks_array.join(«») end#end of the conditional to see if the guessed letter occurs more than once in the mystery word puts fish_tank[counter] puts «Fishy stays in place.» puts puts else counter += 1 puts «Sorry, there is no #{@letter} in the mystery word.» puts fish_tank[counter] puts «Fishy swims toward danger!» puts puts end #end of conditional to see if the letter guessed is in the mystery_word end #end of conditional to see if the letter has already been guessed else puts «You must guess a letter, a — z.» end #end of conditional to see if user input is a letter end #end of until loop #This outputs whether the user lost or won if counter == fish_tank.length puts «Sorry, Fishy is for dinner!» else puts «Congratulations! You won! Fishy is safe.» end#end of win or lose conditional end#end of ask method end #end of class test_game = Game.new test_game.ask

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Clue Answer Nemo’s species Clownfish British dish served with fries Fish and Chips Small pond hotshot Big Fish McDonald’s sandwich Filet-o-Fish Common orange-colored pet fish Goldfish Fugu Pufferfish Albacore or bluefin, e.g. Tunafish Five-armed sea creature Starfish Roe Fish Eggs Supplement rich in omega-3 fatty acids Fish Oil

Clue Answer What a fish uses to climb a dam Fish Ladder John Travolta movie Swordfish It’s easy as shooting … Fish in a Barrel Sea creature with stinging tentacles Jellyfish Common name of the Ichthys symbol Jesus Fish When a person gets whacked they … Sleep with the Fishes Whiskered, bottom-feeding fish Catfish Female fishmonger Fishwife Relative of squids and octopus Cuttlefish Universal translator from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Babel Fish

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Go fishing for compound word fish with this word meaning game. Students will create a compound word by combining two words, such as “straw” and “berry”. Each word is shaped like half of a fish, and combining them will help students to feed Roly! Engaging game play makes learning the meaning of compound words fun. This word list is designed especially for a second grade audience.

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