Comments by TAOG ASOGA (Top 19 by date)

well um sir, while I was working on the code, I kind of worked on it like I was rushing a math problem on a test. My bad habits of writing jumbles of things trying to get it right. sorry bout that.

I updated the code again though, tested it out it's **almost** working fine now. The only problem is that it inserts one position of a correct letter **even when there's more than one instance of that letter in a word (e.g the mystery word is "alabama," There are 4 "a's" in the word but when I press "a" it only shows one of the "a's".

I used the ToString function to update the word to show the correct letters (if the user guesses the correct letter).

SIR I FIGURE IT OUT! WOOOOO!! I'm still stitching all the code together. But I found out how to replace the old variable.

yeah, but only if the color of one of the tiles on the row is still black.
My "if" condition for that was this:
if (yf1 > y)
{
if (bc1 == bsh_black || bc2 == bsh_black || bc3 == bsh_black || bc4 == bsh_black)
{
MessageBox.Show("Game Over");
}
}

first off to make things clearer, at the top of the program I declared to variables: int x, y;
Then I gave them this value:
x = ClientRectangle.Width;
y = ClientRectangle.Height;

Then, that's where I declared x1, x2, etc.
The x1, x2, x3, x4 variables represented a different position. And with the variable "x" being the horizontal length of the form
here's the values I gave them:
x1 = 0;
x2 = x / 4;
x3 = (x / 4) * 2; //or just "x2 * 2"
x4 = (x / 4) * 3;

Basically the same thing for y.

The pat1...pat4 represent the patterns.
Those variables I declared them to represent different arrangements of the tiles in a row.
For example like what I included in the question
if (pat_assign == pat2)
{
bchanger1 = bsh_white;
bchanger2 = bsh_black;
bchanger3 = bsh_white;
bchanger4 = bsh_white;
}
Depending on the pattern (or pat variable chosen), if will assign a certain color to each tile. I did this via "if" conditions.

And so to randomize the selection of these patterns, I declared a an array and a random variable and a variable that will assign the randomly chosen pattern variable like this:
int[] pat_select = new int[4]{pat1, pat2, pat3, pat4};

Random pat_changer = new Random();

int pat_assign = pat_select[pat_changer.Next(0, pat_select.Length)];

yes sir, sorry again. The x1, x2, x3, and x4 represent the columns of the tiles. The "yf1" variable is the variable that will bring the row of tiles downward via the tile_timer.

yes sir.

um it was a variable I intended earlier when I started the code to use to define the state of the game. I later realized there was an easier way to code the game's state using "if" conditions and I didn't need the variable afterwards. Sorry sir, I'll be removing that variable when I "clean up" the code.

The tile_timer_Tick is the Event for the tile_timer sir. And yes sir I'm drawing on the form.

Actually, they're the same, I just changed the name from Block_Timer to tile_timer. Sorry sir.

yes sir

@CarefulCoder thanks sir! This worked! I just had to include the invalidate and the main function of the game was ready to go! Thanks!

Yes sir.

Sorry sir, I forgot to put that part of code in earlier. It's here now (in the question)