Quick Fire Character Counting Game In PowerShell

Another pointless activity in PowerShell. The premis of this game is that you have a short amount of time to look at a word, you then have to guess how many letters are in the word.

If you get the number correct, the game continues and your score increases. If you input and incorrect number, then the game ends, shows your score and exits.

As always I have added this to my “Games In PowerShell” project. Below is the code for the game:

function quickfirecounting{
 $getverbs = Get-Verb | select verb
 [int]$verbamount = $getverbs.count
 $scoreforquickfire = 0
 do{
  $random = Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $verbamount
  $selectedword = $getverbs[$random] -replace "@{verb=","" -replace "}",""
  $selectedwordlength = $selectedword.Length

  $scoreforquickfire = $scoreforquickfire + 1
  Clear-Host
  Write-Host "$selectedword"
  Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 550
  Clear-Host
  $guess = Read-Host "how many letters are in the word?"
 }until ($guess -ne $selectedwordlength)
 Clear-Host
 Write-Host "Incorrect! There were $selectedwordlength letters"
 Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
 Clear-Host
 Write-Host "Your score was $scoreforquickfire"
 Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
 Clear-Host

 do {$playagainselection = Read-Host "do you want to play again? (Y or N)"} while (("y","n") -notcontains $playagainselection)
 if ($playagainselection -eq "y"){
  ####GO TO GAME FUNCTION TO PLAY AGAIN####
 }elseif ($playagainselection -eq "n"){
  ####GO TO THE MAIN MENU####
 }
}

As you can probably see, I am using the verb section of PowerShell to get the random words. This is better and easier than inputting my own words individually.

Enjoy!

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