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+import random
+# library that we use in order to choose
+# on random words from a list of words
+
+name = input("What is your name? ")
+
+# Here the user is asked to enter the name first
+
+print("Good Luck ! ", name)
+
+words = ['rainbow', 'computer', 'science', 'programming',
+		'python', 'mathematics', 'player', 'condition',
+		'reverse', 'water', 'board', 'geeks']
+
+# Function will choose one random
+# word from this list of words
+word = random.choice(words)
+
+
+print("Guess the characters")
+
+guesses = ''
+
+# any number of turns can be used here
+turns = 12
+
+
+while turns > 0:
+
+	# counts the number of times a user fails
+	failed = 0
+
+	# all characters from the input
+	# word taking one at a time.
+	for char in word:
+
+		# comparing that character with
+		# the character in guesses
+		if char in guesses:
+			print(char, end=" ")
+
+		else:
+			print("_")
+
+			# for every failure 1 will be
+			# incremented in failure
+			failed += 1
+
+	if failed == 0:
+		# user will win the game if failure is 0
+		# and 'You Win' will be given as output
+		print("You Win")
+
+		# this print the correct word
+		print("The word is: ", word)
+		break
+
+	# if user has input the wrong alphabet then
+	# it will ask user to enter another alphabet
+	print()
+	guess = input("guess a character:")
+
+	# every input character will be stored in guesses
+	guesses += guess
+
+	# check input with the character in word
+	if guess not in word:
+
+		turns -= 1
+
+		# if the character doesn’t match the word
+		# then “Wrong” will be given as output
+		print("Wrong")
+
+		# this will print the number of
+		# turns left for the user
+		print("You have", + turns, 'more guesses')
+
+		if turns == 0:
+			print("You Loose")