debugging - Can't seem to figure out what's wrong with my python code

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Answer 1

In the lines where you do

guesses - 1

you decrement the value of guesses by 1 but you are not assigning the result to a variable. What you need to do is:

guesses = guesses - 1

There is also a shorter way to write the same thing:

guesses  -= 1