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A secret word

What we are doing

The answer is picked at random from a list of five-letter words each time a game starts.

```js
const WORDS = ['apple', 'beach', 'brain', 'bread', 'brick', 'chair', 'chess', 'clock', 'cloud', 'crane', 'dance', 'dream',
  'drink', 'eagle', 'earth', 'flame', 'fruit', 'ghost', 'glass', 'grape', 'green', 'heart', 'horse', 'house', 'juice',
  'knife', 'laugh', 'lemon', 'light', 'magic', 'money', 'mouse', 'music', 'night', 'ocean', 'paint', 'party', 'piano',
  'pilot', 'plane', 'plant', 'pride', 'queen', 'radio', 'river', 'robot', 'sheep', 'shirt', 'smile', 'snake', 'space',
  'spoon', 'storm', 'sugar', 'table', 'tiger', 'toast', 'train', 'water', 'whale', 'world', 'zebra']

let answer

function reset() {
  answer = WORDS[Math.floor(Math.random() * WORDS.length)]
```

What it means

• WORDS is an array: an ordered list of words in lower case, like the typed letters.
• WORDS.length is how many there are; Math.random() gives a number from 0 up to 1; times the length, rounded down with Math.floor, it is a random index.
• reset picks a new answer for every game.

Your turn

1. Under const ctx = ... and its empty line, write the WORDS list (you may copy it).
2. Above let current, write let answer.
3. In reset, write the answer = ... line at the top. Press Run.

Skills: Arrays and objects

← Leave shortcuts alone Right letter, right place →

All steps

1. The canvas and the pen
2. Paint the background
3. A function that draws
4. A row of five tiles
5. Six rows
6. Draw again and again
7. The typed letters
8. Type with the keyboard
9. Show the letters
10. Backspace
11. Leave shortcuts alone
12. A secret word
13. Right letter, right place
14. Right letter, wrong place
15. Enter sends the guess
16. Colour the guesses
17. Winning and losing
18. A message line
19. Where the keys go
20. Draw the keyboard
21. Tap a key
22. Enter and Delete keys
23. Keys that remember
24. Keep statistics
25. Show the statistics
26. Build it yourself: only real words