In Go, how do stay in a for loop, but print a different output if user guesses too high or too low

I'm trying to develop a guessing game in GO that gives the user three attempts to guess the random number correctly.

It mostly seems to work, I'm using a for loop to count the amount of lives left. If I guess the number correctly, it prints what I want:

> "You guessed it!"

But the issue is, say for example, the random number is 5. If I guessed 4, it would print

> "Too low"

which is correct, but in the second attempt if I was to guess 6, it would still say

> "Too low"

Alternatively, if the random number was 5, and on the first attempt I guessed 6, it would print

> "Too high"

If I was to guess 4 on the second attempt, it would still say

> "Too high"

I think I'm getting caught in the for loop somewhere, but I don't know how to exit it without resetting the attempts count back to 3.

package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"
)
func main() {
secret := getRandomNumber()
fmt.Println(secret)
fmt.Println("Guess the number")
_guess := guessRandomNumber()
for i := 3; i > 0; i-- {
if _guess < secret {
fmt.Println("Too low")
fmt.Println("You have", i, "guesses left.")
} else if _guess < secret {
fmt.Println("Too low")
fmt.Println("You have", i, "guesses left.")
guessRandomNumber()
} else if _guess > secret {
fmt.Println("Too high")
fmt.Println("You have", i, "guesses left.")
guessRandomNumber()
}
if _guess == secret {
fmt.Println("You guessed it!")
i = 0
} else if _guess < secret {
fmt.Println("Too low")
fmt.Println("You have", i, "guesses left.")
guessRandomNumber()
} else if _guess > secret {
fmt.Println("Too high")
fmt.Println("You have", i, "guesses left.")
guessRandomNumber()
}
}
}
func getRandomNumber() int {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
return rand.Int() % 11
}
func guessRandomNumber() int {
var guess int
//fmt.Println("Guess again:")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &guess)
return guess
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really liking GO so far.

You're not assigning the output of your function guessRandomNumber() to your _guess. Apart from this also you're using extra if-else, which are not required. Also you're giving 4 attempts to user instead of 3. You can try:

package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"
)
func main() {
secret := getRandomNumber()
fmt.Println(secret)
fmt.Println("Guess the number")
var _guess int
for i := 3; i > 0; i-- {
_guess = guessRandomNumber()
if _guess == secret {
fmt.Println("You guessed it!")
break
} else if _guess < secret {
fmt.Println("Too low")
fmt.Println("You have", i-1, "guesses left.")
} else {
fmt.Println("Too high")
fmt.Println("You have", i-1, "guesses left.")
}
if i != 1 {
fmt.Println("Guess Again:")
}
}
}
func getRandomNumber() int {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
return rand.Int() % 11
}
func guessRandomNumber() int {
var guess int
//fmt.Println("Guess Number:")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &guess)
return guess
}

https://onlinegdb.com/aOI-CG4S-

I ended up using a for loop with a switch statement to solve the issue.

package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"
)
func main() {
secret := getRandomNumber()
fmt.Println(secret)
fmt.Println("Guess the number")
_guess := guessRandomNumber()
guessCorrect := false
guessCount := 3
for guessCorrect == false && guessCount != 0 {
switch {
case _guess < secret:
fmt.Println("Too low,", guessCount, "guesses left.")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &_guess)
guessCount--
continue
case _guess > secret:
fmt.Println("Too high", guessCount, "guesses left.")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &_guess)
guessCount--
continue
default:
fmt.Println("You got it!")
guessCorrect = true
}
}
}
func getRandomNumber() int {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
return rand.Int() % 11
}
func guessRandomNumber() int {
var guess int
fmt.Scanf("%d", &guess)
return guess
}