program ignoring if statement, and printing True when False

Question

I am writing a simple program for a homework problem and It seems to be skipping my if statement. I have looked at other questions posed, and the problems there do not seem to b

Answer 1

        if i in secretWord == False:

This doesn't do what you think it does. If you want this path to be taken when i isn't in secretWord, you want

        if i not in secretWord:

What you have does a chained comparison. First, it checks

i in secretWord

If that's true, it then checks

secretWord == False

If that's true (which it won't be), it then takes the if path.