🎮 Game Glitch Investigator: The Impossible Guesser

🚨 The Situation

You asked an AI to build a simple "Number Guessing Game" using Streamlit. It wrote the code, ran away, and now the game is unplayable.

• You can't win.
• The hints lie to you.
• The secret number seems to have commitment issues.

🛠️ Setup

1. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Run the broken app: python -m streamlit run app.py

🕵️‍♂️ Your Mission

1. Play the game. Open the "Developer Debug Info" tab in the app to see the secret number. Try to win.
2. Find the State Bug. Why does the secret number change every time you click "Submit"? Ask ChatGPT: "How do I keep a variable from resetting in Streamlit when I click a button?"
3. Fix the Logic. The hints ("Higher/Lower") are wrong. Fix them.
4. Refactor & Test. - Move the logic into logic_utils.py.
   • Run pytest in your terminal.
   • Keep fixing until all tests pass!

📝 Document Your Experience

• Game purpose: A number guessing game where the player tries to guess a secret number within a set number of attempts. The difficulty setting controls the range and attempt limit. Each wrong guess deducts points; winning awards points based on how quickly you guessed.

• Bugs found:

  1. New Game button did not reset the game after a win or loss — the game stayed frozen and new guesses were not registered
  2. Hint direction was reversed — guessing too high showed "Go HIGHER" and guessing too low showed "Go LOWER"
  3. Switching difficulty did not update the displayed guess range — it was hardcoded to "1 and 100"
  4. Attempt counter started at 1 instead of 0, making it always 1 ahead of reality
  5. Score increased by 5 on even-numbered wrong guesses instead of always subtracting
  6. Developer debug panel showed stale values from the previous turn instead of the current one

• Fixes applied:

  1. Added status = "playing" and history = [] resets to the New Game block so the game fully restarts
  2. Swapped the hint messages in check_guess so Too High says "Go LOWER" and Too Low says "Go HIGHER"
  3. Replaced hardcoded "1 and 100" in the info banner with dynamic {low} and {high} variables
  4. Changed the initial value of attempts from 1 to 0
  5. Removed the even/odd condition in update_score so wrong guesses always subtract 5 points
  6. Moved the Developer Debug Info expander to after the submit logic so it reflects the current turn

📸 Demo

🚀 Stretch Features

• [If you choose to complete Challenge 4, insert a screenshot of your Enhanced Game UI here]