AC3 help (number guessing game)

Question

Hello I have a problem, im fairly new to action script and flash in general but heres my code:
//These are the variables.
var beginMessage:String;
var randomNumber:uint;
var guess:uint;
//It disables the play again button so only the guess button is usable.
playagain_btn.enabled =false;
guess_btn.enabled = true;
//shows a message in the message_txt box.
beginMessage="Choose a number between 1 - 100.";
message_txt.text=beginMessage;
//Basically only allows numbers between 0-9...
input_txt.restrict="0-9";
input_txt.text="";
//This stores a random number between 100 and 1.
randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100 + 1);
//Adds an event listener to the guess button.
guess_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, yourGuess);
function yourGuess(event:MouseEvent):void {
guess=uint(input_txt.text);
//This checks if the guessed number is greater than the random number.
if (guess > randomNumber) {
message_txt.text = "Your guess, " +  guess + " is too damn high.";
//This checks if the guessed number is lower than the random number.
else if (guess < randomNumber) {                       
message_txt.text = "Your guess, " +  guess + " is too low.";         
//This displays a message when the correct number is guessed.  
else{        
message_txt.text = "congratulations ,the number is " + randomNumber + ".";
winGame();        
function winGame():void{       
//Disables the guess button and enables the play again button.         
guess_btn.enabled = false;         
playagain_btn.enabled = true;          
//This removes a listener from the yourguess button and adds a
//listener to playagain
guess_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, yourGuess);         
playagain_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, guessAgain);
function guessAgain(event:MouseEvent):void{         
//Runs the init() method.         
init();
//Runs the init() method.
init();
//this part of the script is for the number
//Declare variables
var numOfGuesses:uint ;
var numOfGuessesMessage:String;
function init():void {
    //Displays a message showing the total number of guessing remaining
    numOfGuesses = 6;
    numOfGuessesMessage = " Guesses remaining";
    guess_txt.text = numOfGuesses + numOfGuessesMessage;
if(numOfGuesses == 0){
        message_txt.text = "The number was " + randomNumber + "."; 
        guess_txt.text = "you lose!!!!!! D:!!.";
        winGame();
function yourGuess(event:MouseEvent):void {
    guessMessage();
function guessMessage():void{
    //Only decrement the numOfGuesses if the text field contains characters.
    if(input_txt.length > 1 && numOfGuesses != 0){
        numOfGuesses--;
        guess_txt.text = numOfGuesses + numOfGuessesMessage;
And my errors are duplicate function definition. theres the code its crying about.
function yourGuess(event:MouseEvent):void {
    guessMessage();
what Im doing here is making a number guessing game, everything works but the number of guesses wont go down.

Answer 1

Put a trace in the function where you try to decrease the number of guesses and see if the logic is letting you get in to change it...
  function guessMessage():void {
   //Only decrement numofGuess if the input field has characters.
trace(input_txt.length, numOfGuesses)
   if(input_txt.length > 1 && numOfGuesses != 0){
    numOfGuesses--;
    guess_txt.text = numOfGuesses + numOfGuessesMessage;
  //When guesses have ran out, A message will appear saying you can reset.
  if(numOfGuesses == 0){
   message_txt.text = "The number I was thinking was " + randomNumber + ".";
   guess_txt.text = "Press play again to try again";
  winGame(event:MouseEvent);
If you happen to be changing frames where you leave the frame with this code and then come back to it, then you are likely running into this line again....
numOfGuesses = 6;
which resets the number of guesses.