The Five Steps

We can try a small hand example.

We pick a random number between 1 and 100, say the number is 49.
We prompt the player to enter a guess, say they enter 12.
This is their first guess.
12 is less than 49, so we hint their guess is too low.
We prompt again for a guess, say they enter 35. This is their second guess.
35 is still less than 49, so we hint their guess is too low again.
We prompt again for a guess, say they enter 99. This is their third guess.
99 is greater than 49, so we hint their guess is too high.
We continue like that until the player either guesses the number, or they run out of guesses - i.e. get the number wrong on the 6th try. We then tell the player they win or lose.

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