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Well done for getting to step 4. Now in this step

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when you take a look at the starting file,

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you'll see that I've incorporated a bunch of ASCII art,

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so art that's created using strokes of the keyboard.

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And you can see that this represents the stages of our hangman game starting from

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where they have all six lives and then going down in lives until they have

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no more lives, where the hangman character is complete.

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This has been included as a list and inside the list

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each of these pieces of art is a single string.

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So we're going to be printing it out in this step,

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and we're going to be using it to give the user feedback.

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So the to-dos for step four include creating a variable called lives to keep

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track of the number of lives and lives should be equal to six.

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Now in the next to-do,

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we're checking to see if the guess is actually not a letter in the chosen word,

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then we're going to reduce that variable lives by one.

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So eventually it's going to step down all the way to zero.

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And when that happens, the game should stop and it should print "You lose."

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Now, this part is really important because we want the game to stop

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when the lives has gone down to zero.

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So the code should exit the while loop and print "You lose."

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So in addition to winning as a condition to ending the game,

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losing is also a condition for ending the game. Now,

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the final to do is just to print the ASCII art from stages

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which is this list up here,

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and the stage should represent the current number of lives

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the user has remaining. So this way,

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when we actually play the game and we get all the letters wrong,

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each time a new piece of the hang man is going to be drawn until eventually we

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end up with the entire drawing complete and the game ends,

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and it tells us that we lost. If it's helpful,

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refer to the flow chart. And once you're ready,

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go ahead and fork the starting code and tackle the

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to-dos one by one. Good luck and I'll see you on the other side.