Scanf skips every other while loop in C

Question

I\'m trying to develop a simple text-based hangman game, and the main game loop starts with a prompt to enter a guess at each letter, then goes on to check if the letter is

Answer 1

Jim and Jonathan have it right.

To get your scanf line to do what you want (consume the newline character w/o putting it in the buffer) I'd change it to

scanf("%c\n", ¤tGuess);

(note the \n)

The error handling on this is atrocious though. At the least you should check the return value from scanf against 1, and ignore the input (with a warning) if it doesn't return that.