Build a Fortune Teller - Build a Fortune Teller

Programming JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I am getting a syntax error for the Build a Fortune Teller exercise.

My syntax error says “You should initialize fortune1 with a string value”. If I remove the IF statement then I don’t get an error.

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 neighbours.";
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;
if (randomNumber == 1) {
    selectedFortune = fortune1
  } elseif (randomNumber == 2) {
    selectedFortune = fortune2
  } elseif (randomNumber == 3) {
    selectedFortune = fortune3
  } elseif (randomNumber == 4) {
    selectedFortune = fortune4
  } elseif (randomNumber == 5) {
    selectedFortune = fortune5}
console.log(selectedFortune);

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Build a Fortune Teller - Build a Fortune Teller

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/lab-fortune-teller/66c06d618d075c7f7f1b890a.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

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Hi there,

JavaScript doesn’t have a elseif like Python’s elif. Instead the syntax is else if. Fix that and the tests should pass.

Happy coding!

3

you have an additional synax issue here, the last block is unclosed

4

Thanks very much, I spent ages looking at it and just couldn’t see it!