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I'm creating a lottery game where it checks if the user guessed 2, 3, 4, or 5 numbers out of the random lottery numbers, then prints a message. Lottery numbers are from 1 - 100 printed 10 times and users guess 5 numbers. I have tried for loops and if statements and it doesn't print the right message out. Don't mind the variables as I'm just testing out to see what works. My question is, how do I check if the user guessed 2 , 3 , 4 or 5 numbers correctly? Here is my code.

    // first way to check if user guessed correctly 
    
    int  x,y;
    
    for ( int i = 4; i< numbers.length; i++) {
        x = numbers[i];
        for (int j = 0; j < lottery.length; j++) {
            y = lottery[j];
            
            if (x == y) {
                System.out.println("You guessed 5 numbers");
            }
            for ( i = 3; i< numbers.length; i++ ) {
                x = numbers[i];
                
                if ( x == y) {
                    System.out.println("You guessed 4 numbers");
                }
                for ( i = 2; i < numbers.length; i++) {
                    x = numbers[i];
                    
                    if ( x == y) {
                        System.out.println("You guessed 3 numbers");
                    }
                    for ( i = 1; i < numbers.length; i++) {
                        x = numbers[i];
                        
                        if ( x == y) {
                            System.out.println("You guessed 2 numbers");
                        }
                      }
                    }
                }
  
        }
    }
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  • Lottery numbers are generated from 1 - 100 printed 10 times .User can guess 5 times out of 10. Commented Nov 22, 2020 at 0:01

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public static void main(String[] args) {

        int count = 0;
        int[] lottery = new int[5];
        int[] input = new int[5];

        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter 5 number: ");
        for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            input[i] = scanner.nextInt();
        }

        Random r = new Random();
        for (int i = 0; i < lottery.length; i++) {
            int random = r.nextInt(10); // Upper bound of random generator = 10.
            lottery[i] = random;
            System.out.print(lottery[i]);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < lottery.length; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < input.length; j++) {
                if (lottery[i] == input[j]) {
                    count++;
                }
            }
        }

        if (count == 0) {
            System.out.println("\nToo bad, you have 0 correct guess. Try again!");
        } else if (count == 1) {
            System.out.println("\n1 number guessed correctly! You won $1000!");
        } else if (count == 2) {
            System.out.println("\n2 number guessed correctly! You won $6000!");
        } else {
            // Add condition
        }
    }

This will receive 5 random numbers and store it in lottery array. The program will prompt user for 5 input numbers, store it in input and compare lottery[i] with each numbers in input. If two numbers are equal, increment count. Example run:

Enter 5 number: 
1 2 3 4 5
7 2 5 9 1 
2 number guessed correctly! You won $6000!

Note that if the random number generator creates two or more duplicate numbers, the count will increases as well. It's an edge case, but I think you can Google for it if you want the improvement.

Implementing this using ArrayList is also a lot more simple because ArrayList has the method contains() that will check if it has such elements. We can use a trivial if-else loop for it. I assume OP's homework has a constraint of using Array and therefore not using this method.

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In my code I don't think order really matters. For example, at lottery[0] = 2, it will check for every single numbers in user's input from [0] to [4] and it will do the same for the rest of lottery[]. Which means that no matter which order you input, it will always correctly increment count if the number matches.
no the order doesn't matter at all , the program just checks if any number was guessed
this code is the one I would use but instead of just printing " correct numbers guessed" I want to print for example if one number was guessed : 'You guessed one number , you win €1,000" or if two numbers were guessed : "You guessed two numbers , you win €6,000" . Do I need to repeat the for loop for each statement or just set guess = 0; and use if statements?
Thank you so much.I have been stuck at this for ages.Its actually funny I tried switch statements too I just didn't set the count to 0.
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I have implemented a complete and fully working example program. It uses ArrayLists to store the different numbers. With shuffle, the lottery numbers are mixed. After all numbers were shuffled, the first 5 elements are taken from the lottery numbers and declared as the winning numbers. All winning numbers are uniqe.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class LotteryGame {

    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        final int N = 5; // Number of winning lottery numbers.

        ArrayList<Integer> winningNumbers = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        ArrayList<Integer> userNumbers = new ArrayList<Integer>(); // Are also 5 numbers (5 out of 1 to 100 lottery
                                                                    // game).
        ArrayList<Integer> lotteryNumbers = new ArrayList<Integer>();

        // Insert user numbers (user's tips).
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Please Enter 5 numbers: ");
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            userNumbers.add(scanner.nextInt());
        }

        System.out.println("\nUser's Tips:\n" + userNumbers);

        // Generating the different numbers.
        for (int i = 1; i < 101; i++) { // Lottery game: Numbers from 1 to 100.
            lotteryNumbers.add(i);
        }

        // System.out.println("\nOriginal Lottery Numbers:\n" + lotteryNumbers);

        // Shuffle the lottery numbers randomly.
        Collections.shuffle(lotteryNumbers);

        // System.out.println("\nShuffled Numbers:\n" + lotteryNumbers);

        // Retrieve the N-th first elements from the ArrayList (all numbers are uniqe).
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            winningNumbers.add(lotteryNumbers.get(i));
        }

        System.out.println("\nWinning Numbers are:\n" + winningNumbers);

        // Checking the correct guessed numbers.
        int count = 0;
        for (int userTip : userNumbers) {
            if (winningNumbers.contains(userTip)) {
                count++;
            }
        }

        // Print out fi the user has won a money price or not.
        if (count == 0) {
            System.out.println("\nSorry, no numbers guessed!");
        } else if (count == 1) {
            System.out.println("\nYou guessed ONE number, you win $1,000");
        } else if (count == 2) {
            System.out.println("\nYou guessed TWO numbers, you win $6,000");
        } else if (count == 3) {
            System.out.println("\nYou guessed THREE numbers, you win $10,000");
        } else if (count == 4) {
            System.out.println("\nYou guessed FOUR numbers, you win $20,000");
        } else if (count == 5) {
            System.out.println("\nYou guessed FIVE numbers, you win $30,000");
        }
    }
}

Example output:

Please Enter 5 numbers: 
3 7 33 93 43

User's Tips:
[3, 7, 33, 93, 43]

Winning Numbers are:
[54, 31, 48, 64, 82]

Sorry, no numbers guessed!
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Thank you.I want to print for example if one number was guessed : 'You guessed one number , you win €1,000" or if two numbers were guessed : "You guessed two numbers , you win €6,000".That is my main problem, I don't know how to print a different message for every statement
@MelissaSpivacenco I have changed the output of the program. With if, else if's I check the different conditions, and if a specific condition is met, I output the appropriate text.
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Convert arrays to lists and do the checks

 List<Integer> userNumbers = Arrays.stream(numbers).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());
 List<Integer> lotteryNumbers = Arrays.stream(lottery).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());


 int count = 0;
 for(int i=0; i<userNumbers.size();i++){
     if(lotteruNumbers.contains(i)){
          count++
     }
 }

 System.out.println("You've guessed"+ count+ " numbers");
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` i<userNumbers` is an invalid expression, you can not compare lists and numbers using <. There is no need to convert to lists in the first place, you gain nothing by doing that, and depending on the lottery used your result is utterly incorrect.
You can leave these as ArrayLists and use the same logic because the methods size(), contains() and get() exist.

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