Loop terminates because of condition, but the condition is necessary? - c

Question

I'm working on a program that is a guessing game.
The problem is I have to set remainingguesses to 0 so that the amount of guesses a person can make decreases by 1. But at the same time the condition set in the loop is based on the remainingguesses not being 0. Meaning once it is 0 the loop terminates and moves on.
I don't know how to solve this while making the condition in the loop work properly.
Here's the loop in question:
printf( "Type the number of guesses that player 2 gets and press return: \n");
scanf("%d",&guesses);
remainingguesses = 0;
while (remainingguesses != 0) {
printf("Player 2: Type your guess and press return (guesses remaining:%d):\n",remainingguesses);
scanf(" %d",&secretnumberguess);
remainingguesses = guesses - 1;
if (secretnumberguess > secretnumber) {
printf("Your guess was greater than the secret number.\n");
}
else if (secretnumberguess < secretnumber){
printf("Your guess was less than the secret number.\n");
}
else{
printf("Your guess was equal to the secret number. You win!\n");
}
}
if (remainingguesses == 0)
printf("Sorry you are out of guesses. You lose.\n");
Here's the full code in question if needed:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int secretnumber;
int guesses;
int secretnumberguess;
int remainingguesses;
while (1) {
printf("Player 1: Type a number between 0 and 99 and press return:\n");
scanf(" %d",&secretnumber);
if (secretnumber > 99 || secretnumber < 0) {
printf("Secret number cannot be greater than 99 or below 0.\n");
continue;
}
break;
}
printf( "Type the number of guesses that player 2 gets and press return: \n");
scanf("%d",&guesses);
remainingguesses = 0;
while (remainingguesses != 0) {
printf("Player 2: Type your guess and press return (guesses remaining:%d):\n",remainingguesses);
scanf(" %d",&secretnumberguess);
remainingguesses = guesses - 1;
if (secretnumberguess > secretnumber) {
printf("Your guess was greater than the secret number.\n");
}
else if (secretnumberguess < secretnumber){
printf("Your guess was less than the secret number.\n");
}
else{
printf("Your guess was equal to the secret number. You win!\n");
}
}
if (remainingguesses == 0)
printf("Sorry you are out of guesses. You lose.\n");
return 0;

Answer 1

Simplified code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int secretnumber;
int guesses;
int secretnumberguess;
int flag=0;
while (1) {
printf("Player 1: Type a number between 0 and 99 and press return:\n");
scanf(" %d",&secretnumber);
if (secretnumber > 99 || secretnumber < 0) {
printf("Secret number cannot be greater than 99 or below 0.\n");
continue;
}
break;
}
printf( "Type the number of guesses that player 2 gets and press return: \n");
scanf("%d",&guesses);
while (guesses > 0 && flag==0) {
printf("Player 2: Type your guess and press return (guesses remaining:%d):\n",guesses);
scanf(" %d",&secretnumberguess);
guesses=guesses - 1;
if (secretnumberguess > secretnumber) {
printf("Your guess was greater than the secret number.\n");
}
else if (secretnumberguess < secretnumber){
printf("Your guess was less than the secret number.\n");
}
else{
printf("Your guess was equal to the secret number. You win!\n");
flag=1;
}
}
if (guesses == 0 && flag==0)
printf("Sorry you are out of guesses. You lose.\n");
return 0;
}

Answer 2

Here is probably a simple way of coding this.
read guesses;
while (guesses > 0) {
read input;
if (input == secret) {
print "you win!!";
return;
}
else {
print "try again!";
}
guesses--;
}
print "Sorry! You are out of guesses";