Why is my game only printing one output when it should be printing

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I am making a guess the number game, however in my if/else statement it is not printing the else instead it is printing the if always regardless of what input I give it. This is my code:

print("Welcome to the number game. In this game you are given a list of numbers from one to ten and you have to guess the right numbers!")

while 2 == 2:
  guess = int(input("Choose a number from: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9!"))
  if guess == 1 or 2 or 5 or 9:
    print("You guessed a winning number! Congrats!")
  else:
    print("Maybe next time...")

Please explain to me why it is only printing "You guessed a winning number! Congrats!".
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Asked By: snowhow

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Answer 1

Because you wrote

if guess == 1 or 2 or 5 or 9:

It will test if "guess == 1" then it will test "if 2", not "if guess == 2", just "2" and and so on.

So you should write

if guess == 1 or guess == 2 or  guess == 5 or guess == 9:

I recommend that you use lists :

winning_numbers = [1, 2, 5, 9]
if guess in winning_numbers:
   #code goes here

Answered By: Quentin

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