Build a Fortune Teller - Build a Fortune Teller

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I have all of the correct answers except for #3. I assume I need to do some kind of “if else” statement to ensure that the randomNumber variable is assigned to the corresponding fortune# value but I am not 100% sure that is correct.

Also, I ended it with an “else if” statement but I think it should have ended with just “else” but the instructions are vague enough that I am not sure the “if else” were necessary as a whole. If I don’t use “if else”, I have no idea what else to put in its place.

Listed below are the instructions to build a fortune teller:

User Stories:

  1. You should initialize the five variables fortune1, fortune2, fortune3, fortune4, and fortune5 with a string value of your choice. You can use the below options if you like:
  • "Your cat will look very cuddly today."
  • "The weather will be nice tomorrow."
  • "Be cautious of your new neighbours."
  • "You will find a new hobby soon."
  • "It would be wise to avoid the colour red today."
  1. You should select a random number between 1 and 5, inclusive, and assign it to the variable randomNumber.
  2. You should create a selectedFortune variable and assign the appropriate fortune based on these rules:
  • If randomNumber is 1, assign the value of fortune1 to selectedFortune.
  • If randomNumber is 2, assign the value of fortune2 to selectedFortune.
  • If randomNumber is 3, assign the value of fortune3 to selectedFortune.
  • If randomNumber is 4, assign the value of fortune4 to selectedFortune.
  • If randomNumber is 5, assign the value of fortune5 to selectedFortune.
  1. You should log the selectedFortune to the console.

Your code so far

let fortune1 = "Your cat will look very cuddly today.";
let fortune2 = "The weather will be nice tomorrow."
let fortune3 = "Be cautious of your new neighbors.";
let fortune4 = "You will find a new hobby soon.";
let fortune5 = "It would be wise to avoid the color red today.";
let randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 5) + 1;
let selectedFortune = randomNumber;
if (randomNumber == 1) {
  console.log(fortune1);
} else if (randomNumber == 2) {
  console.log(fortune2);
} else if (randomNumber == 3) {
  console.log(fortune3);
} else if (randomNumber == 4) {
  console.log(fortune4);
} else if (randomNumber == 5) {
  console.log(fortune5);
}

console.log(selectedFortune);

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Challenge Information:

Build a Fortune Teller - Build a Fortune Teller
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/lab-fortune-teller/build-a-fortune-teller

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@calypsocodes You aren’t assigned fortune’s to the variable.

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I thought I did that with:

let selectedFortune = randomNumber;

just above the if else statements. Is that the part that is incorrect? Are the if else statements okay?

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If randomNumber is 1, assign the value of fortune1 to selectedFortune.

Did you assign the value of fortune1 to selectedFortune?

let selectedFortune = randomNumber;

You are assigning a random number to selectedFortune.

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Nope.

You should log the selectedFortune to the console.

What are you logging to the console?

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I thought I did that too by including the if/else statements after. And I did console log selectedFortune at the end.

I don’t understand what I am doing wrong. What part of the code are you saying is specifically incorrect?

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Focus on one thing at a time then:

If randomNumber is 1, assign the value of fortune1 to selectedFortune.

What are you assigning to selectedFortune ?

let selectedFortune = randomNumber;
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Thank you for trying to help, but I still didn’t understand. Someone showed me how to use AI and I was able to learn what I did wrong that way. Thanks!

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Are you able to explain to me what you did wrong?

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Yes. I was assigning randomNumber directly to selectedFortune instead of assigning it to the appropriate fortune string.

So while I was on the right track with everything else, I just messed up the console.log sections in each if-else statement in my original coding listed above. I made the adjustment, and it passed.

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Same,I made this error at the start. your comment was helpful

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Mistake is how you use the selectedFortune variable. In the current version, you are simply assigning randomNumber to selectedFortune , but you are not using it to output the fortune. Instead, you are directly printing the fortunes in each condition.

Use ChatGPT (Duck.ai) it tells mistakes and gives correct code. Just copy whole code to chat.

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It is great that you solved the challenge, but instead of posting your full working solution, it is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge. How to Help Someone with Their Code Using the Socratic Method

We are trying to cut back on the number of spoiler solutions found on the forum and instead focus on helping other campers with their questions and definitely not posting full working solutions.

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As outlined in our rules, please do not post content that was generated by AI. This community is about humans helping humans.

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