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    Default Mastermind game

    I am confused on how to write a Boolean that will end the game if the guess is correct if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it
    My teacher calls it baseball lol so I made a baseball class which contains all of my methods and arraylist of words to guess from
    <import java.util.*;
    import java.io.*;
     
    public class Baseball {
     
        private ArrayList<String> numbers;
        private String secret;
        private int count, strike, ball;
        private StringBuffer hideNumber = new StringBuffer();
        private StringBuffer disguise = new StringBuffer();
     
        public Baseball(){
     
            numbers = new ArrayList<String>();
            numbers.add("012");
            numbers.add("123");
            numbers.add("456");
            numbers.add("789");
            numbers.add("098");
            numbers.add("765");
            numbers.add("432");
            numbers.add("109");
            numbers.add("876");
            numbers.add("543");
            numbers.add("210");
            numbers.add("987");
            numbers.add("654");
            numbers.add("321");
            numbers.add("135");
            numbers.add("579");
            numbers.add("024");
            numbers.add("468");
            numbers.add("420");
            numbers.add("864");
            numbers.add("531");
            numbers.add("975");
            numbers.add("079");
            numbers.add("035");
            numbers.add("046");
     
            secret = numbers.get((int)Math.floor(Math.random()*numbers.size()));
        }
     
        public StringBuffer choseWord(String s){
            hideNumber.append(s);
            return hideNumber;
        }
     
        public void noBalls(String guess){
           count = 0;
           for(int i = 0; i < hideNumber.length(); i++){
               for(int j = 0; j < hideNumber.length(); j++){
                   if(i != j && guess.charAt(i) == hideNumber.charAt(j)){
                       count++;
                       ball = count;
                   }
               }
           }
        }
     
        public void noStrikes(String guess){
            count = 0;
            for(int i = 0; i < hideNumber.length(); i++){
                if(guess.charAt(i) == hideNumber.charAt(i)){
                    count++;
                    strike = count;
                }
            }
        }
     
        public Boolean gameOver(){
     
                return true;
        }
     
        @Override
        public String toString(){
            return "Strikes: " + strike + " " + "Balls: " + ball;
        }
     
        public ArrayList<String> getNumbers() {
            return numbers;
        }
     
        public String getSecret() {
            return secret;
        }
     
        public StringBuffer getHideNumber() {
            return hideNumber;
        }
     
        public StringBuffer getDisguise() {
            return disguise;
        }
     
         public Integer getBall() {
            return ball;
        }
     
        public Integer getStrike() {
            return strike;
        }
    }>

    This is my main class that will execute the game
    <import java.util.*;
    import java.io.*;
     
    public class Homework2 {
     
        public static void main(String[] args){
     
            Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
            boolean repeat = false;
            boolean valid = false;
            String guess, secret, answer;
            StringBuffer guesses, number;
            int tries = 0;
     
            while(!repeat){
                Baseball play = new Baseball();
                secret = play.getSecret();
                number = play.choseWord(secret);
                System.out.println("*****************************");
                System.out.println("*****WELCOME TO BASEBALL*****");
                System.out.println("**  (c) Devin Johnson      **");
                System.out.println("**      Have Fun!!!!       **");
                System.out.println("*****************************" +"\n");
                System.out.println("Key for debugging: " + number);
     
                while(play.gameOver()){
                    System.out.print("Guess three numbers: ");
                    guess = input.nextLine();
                    tries++;
                    Character a = guess.charAt(0);
                    Character b = guess.charAt(1);
                    Character c = guess.charAt(2);
                    if(guess.length() < 0 || guess.length() > 3 || Character.isAlphabetic(a)
                            || Character.isAlphabetic(b) || Character.isAlphabetic(c))
                    {
                        System.out.println("Invalid input, Please try again!");
                        continue;
                    }
                    if(a == b || a == c || b == c || c == a || b == a ){
                        System.out.println("Invalid input, Please try again!");
                        continue;
                    }
                    else{
     
                           play.noBalls(guess);
                           play.noStrikes(guess);
                           System.out.println(play); 
     
                    }
                    if(!play.gameOver()){
                        System.out.println("Congrats!    You are correct!    It took you "+ tries + " tries.");
     
                    } 
                }
                System.out.print("Would you like to play again, yes/no:");
                answer = input.next();
                repeat = answer.equalsIgnoreCase("no");
            }
        }
     
    }>


    --- Update ---

    The code is all mine also just confused how I should do a Boolean or if I even should do one?


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    Default Re: Mastermind game

    how to write a Boolean that will end the game
    A boolean variable can have two values: true and false.

    You can use an if statement to test its value and do something that will "end the game" if it is true.

    Define the boolean as a class variable.
    Set it true when you want other parts of the class to know about it.
    Test its value when you want to exit the game if true.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: Mastermind game

    That is true thank you very much i didnt think about that

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    Default Re: Mastermind game

    What are all those numbers for?

    numbers = new ArrayList<String>();
            numbers.add("012");

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    Default Re: Mastermind game

    the numbers were for creating my own arraylist that contained a bank of number strings for the computer to randomly generate one as the secret number to have the user guess from

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