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

I'll guess: your code is treating a newline as one of the guesses when you enter data. I've always avoided the *scanf() family due to uncontrollable error handling. Try using fgets() instead, then pulling out the first char/byte.