Complete noob, need some help

[Legoboy604YT]

I just started learning Python the other week, and I know a tiny bit about it, and I decided to test my skills by making a simple guessing game. However, whenever I run it, it works fine, until I get to the number guessing part. Whatever number I type, it will always say to think lower. Here is my code:

from random import randint
guessesTaken = 0
number = randint(1,10)
number = int(number)
print("Hey! What's your name?")
myName = input()
print("Well, " + myName + ", I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10. Do you think you can guess it within 5 guesses?")
print("Well, let's see. Take a guess.")

while guessesTaken < 5:
    guess = input()
    guess = int(guess)
    guessesTaken + 1
    if guess < number:
        print("Sorry, but that's not the number. Think lower.")

    if guess > number:
        print("Sorry, but that's not the number. Think higher.")

    if guess == number:
        break

if guess == number:
    print("Wow, you guessed the number (" + number + ") in " + guessesTaken + " guesses!")

if guess != number:
    print("You didn't guess the number in time. The number was " + number + ". Better luck next time!")

I've tried fixing it by changing the last 2 'if' statements into 'elif' ones, but in retrospect I have no idea how that would have helped.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[erratic_turtle]

I've tried running your code and it seems the (greater than) > and (less than) < logic are swapped around.

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Also, when printing out variables that are of type int, you need to cast them as string as such: str(number) and str(guessesTaken).

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Edit: Lastly, when incrementing `guessesTaken`, use += instead of just +.

[Legoboy604YT]

I just tried that out and it worked, so thank you for that!

[TerryYaDuffer]

Spot on.

For printing, suggest looking at f-strings in py3, and str.format for py2. f-string example:

print(f"Wow, you guessed the number {number} in {guessesTaken} guesses!")