Name the Country: Python Challenge

In this challenge, you will use your Python skills to create a quiz where the player has to guess the name of a country when they can only see the first letter of that country.

When a player gives an incorrect guess, the next letter of the correct answer is revealed.

The quiz should have a scoring system that adds to the player score a number of points corresponding to the number of letters still hidden.

The quiz should repeat itself 10 times, each time with a different country. At the end the computer should reveal the total score of the player.

As an extension task, a leader board should be added to store the player’ name and score in a text file (CSV format).

Structure Diagram

Here is the structure diagram (Decomposition diagram) for this project:

The main tasks for this project are as follows:

Initialise the game
 Initialise a list of at least 20 countries
 Initialise player score to 0

Quiz Engine

 Randomly pick a country from the list of countries
 Display the clue (e.g. C _ _ _ _ _ )
 Collect the user guess
 Check if the user is correct and if not repeat the process with a new clue.
 If the user is correct, calculate and display their new score
 Repeat the quiz 10 times with 10 different countries

Game Over / Leaderboard

 Display a “Game Over” message and the total score
 Ask the player to enter their name
 Store the player’s name and score in a leaderboard file
 Display the leader board (Top 10 scores in descending order)

Displaying the Clue

To help you with this project, we have already created a procedure called displayClue() that takes two parameters: word and x and displays the first x letter of a word following with _ characters for each remaining letters of the given word.

The Python code for our function is as follows:

# A subroutine to display the first x letters of a word
# and replace the remaining letters with _
def displayClue(word,x):
   clue = ""
   for i in range (0, len(word)):
      if i<x:
         clue = clue + word[i]
      else:
         clue = clue + "_"
      clue = clue + " "   
   print("Name the country: " + clue.upper())

Python Code

Your task is to complete the code below to recreate this “Name the Country” Quiz:

Solution...

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