title: Word Guessing Game in Python?
body: <p>I'm in a basic programming class and I'm a bit stuck working on this game. The idea was to create a simple word-guessing game, where the computer would choose a random word and you would attempt to guess first some letter in the word, then the word itself after 5 tries. I've gone through multiple times and I still get an error of "Invalid Syntax" when I attempt to run the module. 
  I'm a bit dyslexic when it comes to programming languages, so maybe there's something I'm overlooking?
  I would appreciate it if someone out there could offer a bit of help!</p>
  
  <pre><code>#Word Guessing Game
  #Computer picks a random word
  #Player tries to guess it
  #computer only responds with yes or no
  
  import random
  
  tries = 0
  
  print "Welcome to the word game!"
  print "\nI'm going to think of a word and you have to guess it!"
  print "\nGuess which letters are in the word, then you have to guess the whole thing!"
  print "\nGood luck!"
  
  WORDS = ("follow", "waking", "insane", "chilly", "massive", 
           "ancient", "zebra", "logical", "never", "nice")
  
  word = random.choice(WORDS)
  
  correct = word
  length = len(word)
  length = str(length)
  
  guess = raw_input("The word is " + length + " letters long. Guess a letter!: ")
  
  while tries &lt; 5:
      for guess in word:
          if guess not in word:
              print "Sorry, try again."
          else:
              print "Good job! Guess another!"
  
      tries = tries + 1 #*
  
      if tries = 5:
          final = raw_input ("Try to guess the word!: ")
  
          if final = correct:
              print "Amazing! My word was ", word, "!"
  
          else:
              print "Sorry. My word was ", word, ". Better luck next time!"
  
  raw_input("\n\nPress enter to exit")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It should also be noted that the problems occurred after the end of the "while tries" block, when I attempted to specify the limits of the "tries" variable. I've worked with it before in a random number game, but for some reason it didn't work properly here. I would greatly appreciate some help!
  It should also be noted that I run on a rather outdated version of Python, some variation of 2.0, I believe.</p>