Build a Fortune Teller - Build a Fortune Teller

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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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Build a 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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