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Lives

What we are doing

So far nothing bad happens when a word lands. Now each landed word costs a life. Two words could land in the same frame, so we take away landed.length, not 1.

```js
const GROUND = 330 // a word that falls past this line costs a life

let lives

  lives = 3

  const landed = words.filter((w) => w.y > GROUND)
  if (landed.length === 0) return
  words = words.filter((w) => w.y <= GROUND)
  if (landed.includes(target)) target = null
  lives -= landed.length
```

What it means

• lives starts at 3.
• If nothing landed this frame, update stops right there; the rest only runs when something landed.
• lives -= landed.length takes one life for each landed word.

Your turn

1. Update the comment on GROUND.
2. Under let typed ... write let lives; in reset, under typed = 0, write lives = 3.
3. In update, add the landed.length line under landed, and lives -= ... at the end.

Skills: Game states

← Let go of a lost word Hearts →

All steps

1. A sky for the words
2. The ground
3. A word on the canvas
4. A function that draws
5. A list of words
6. Make them fall
7. The game loop
8. A new word from the list
9. Let it rain
10. Gone past the ground
11. Lock on to a word
12. Listen to the keyboard
13. Letter by letter
14. Half a word in yellow
15. Let go of a lost word
16. Lives
17. Hearts
18. Score
19. Out of lives
20. Freeze the game
21. The game over panel
22. Play again
23. Levels
24. Faster and faster
25. Best score
26. Accuracy
27. Words per minute
28. Your speed at the end
29. Where the keys go
30. Draw the keyboard
31. Light up the next key
32. Tap the keys
33. Build it yourself: change your mind