guessing game 0-100 java

Robert Nelson :

I have a code I need to set from 0-100 and have it be a possibility to have zero be the right answer. I have set my Final ints to MAX(100)/MIN(0). But 0 is never the right answer. I'm 4 years into coding with 2 years experience in Java, but it seems that any problem 1-100 or 1- any other MAX is fine. Please help, or explain if 0 isn't an allowed selection.

import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class GuessingGame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        Random generator = new Random();

        int MIN = 0;
        int MAX = 100;
        int answer;
        int guess;
        String another = "y";
        boolean flag = false;
        boolean anotherFlag = true;

        while(anotherFlag){
            answer = generator.nextInt(MAX) + 1;

            System.out.println("I'm thinkin of a number between 0 and " + MAX );
            System.out.println("Can you guess what it is? \n");
            flag = false;
            while(!flag) {
                guess = scan.nextInt();

                if(guess == answer){
                    System.out.println("You guessed correctly");
                    flag = true;

                } else{
                    System.out.println("That was wrong, try again.");
                }
            }

            System.out.println("Want to Play again?(y/n)");
            another = scan.next();

            if(another.equalsIgnoreCase("y") == true){
                anotherFlag = true;
            } else{
                anotherFlag = false;
            }
        }

Thank you for your help.

TrivediM :

It seems that the problem is with

    answer = generator.nextInt(MAX) + 1;

Your answer range is 1 - MAX.

if you want to generate a random number between 0 - MAX, where MAX = 100. You should write-

    answer = generator.nextInt(MAX+1);

Because as per Java API (java v8),

    public int nextInt(int bound)

returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive)