var simpleDebug = [];
var truthTester = [];

// peter  here's the logic I was thinking of
// if  (arrayOfStates.includes(userAnswer) {
//    var included = true && var notIncluded = false;
//    }


   function q7() {

    var arrayOfStates  = ['ALASKA', 'ARIZONA', 'ILLINOIS', 'CALIFORNIA', 'WASHINGTON', 'OREGON', 'COLORADO', 'NEVADA'];
    var stringOfStates = ('Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada');
    var userGuess = prompt('Which states have I lived in?').toUpperCase();

    var trysLeft = 6;
    //peter we want to default to false.
    var correctness = false;
    //I copied and pasted this here, from line 163.
    // peter i'm not
    var x = 0;


        while (trysLeft > 0) {
    if (arrayOfStates.includes(userGuess) ){
        var included = true;
        var notIncluded = false;
        correctness = true;
        truthTester.push(correctness);
        var x = 1;
        trysLeft --;
        simpleDebug.push(x);
        // peter and we don't just want to alert a string, we also want to alert the whole arrayOfStates. So we should alert a string and that array together.
        alert('Here are all of the states I\'ve lived in!\n ' + stringOfStates);
        // peter I didn't use any breaks in mine, and it worked, when I did mess around with break it broke my code, so we should be careful with that.

        // // peter it looks like the way i handled it was having a neighbor else statement (by neighbor i mean they are not nested!) that handles all other possibilites.
        return included;
        // break;

        // so here we want the !== logic
        // pseudo code if arrayOfStates !== includ userGuess then {}


    }
    else if (notIncluded === false) {
    alert('you got it wrong message' + ' this many guess left ' + trysLeft);
    }
}
    // }else if (/* what logic goes here */ ) {
    //     trysLeft --;
    //     truthTester.push(correctness);
    //     var j = 1;
    //     simpleDebug.push(j);
    //     alert('you got it wrong message' + ' this many guess left ' + trysLeft);
    //     return false;
    // }
        // break; //we should return instead at this point.
    // else {
    //     alert('invalid input try again');
    // };

   }
  q7();