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

A couple points I noticed:

• scanf("%c") will read 1 character and keep the ENTER in the input buffer for next time through the loop
• you're incrementing i even when the character read from the user doesn't match the character in secretWord
• when does covered[j] ever get to be '-'?