For my program I need the computer to pick a random number for my generator, but For certain instances I don't want it to pick a random number from 1 to 10, but rather I want it to pick randomly two numbers that are not right next to each other… ie. 3 or 5 … 7 or 9 … 1 or 6. Please help?

I don't quite understand. You can type whatever you want into the pick random block:

Am I missing something?

Oh! I get it. This might work:

This is super complicated, but I hope it helps! I didn't know what the numbers were used for, so I just put in a bunch of move … steps. You can get rid of those if you want.

piggiety wrote:

Oh! I get it. This might work:

This is super complicated, but I hope it helps! I didn't know what the numbers were used for, so I just put in a bunch of move … steps. You can get rid of those if you want.

Thank you for the help, but I don't really understand this lol.

jokebookservice1 wrote:

I don't quite understand. You can type whatever you want into the pick random block:

Am I missing something?

Yes, I don't want it to pick 3 to 5 I want it to pick 3 OR 5 , so I want 4 out of the picture completely.

blakelarson19 wrote:

piggiety wrote:

Oh! I get it. This might work:

This is super complicated, but I hope it helps! I didn't know what the numbers were used for, so I just put in a bunch of move … steps. You can get rid of those if you want.

Thank you for the help, but I don't really understand this lol.

Ha! I'm not good with simple scripts…

piggiety wrote:

blakelarson19 wrote:

piggiety wrote:

Oh! I get it. This might work:

This is super complicated, but I hope it helps! I didn't know what the numbers were used for, so I just put in a bunch of move … steps. You can get rid of those if you want.

Thank you for the help, but I don't really understand this lol.

Ha! I'm not good with simple scripts…

Should I share my project would that help?

You could simply do:

Or, to make it a little more reusable and easy,

georgeskey wrote:

You could simply do:

Or, to make it a little more reusable and easy,

Thank you, will the computer be able to process this quickly enough? This makes sense though and I'm trying it right now.

georgeskey wrote:

You could simply do:

Or, to make it a little more reusable and easy,

And if you mean randomly pick two numbers, you can just do:

A really easy way would be:

This will give either 3 or 5. Change the 1 at the end to a 3 to make it pick 5 or 7.

zp100 wrote:

A really easy way would be:

This will give either 3 or 5. Change the 1 at the end to a 3 to make it pick 5 or 7.

Or change the second 2 to 3 and leave the 1 at the end alone. If you just want to pick between two numbers there's always a similar method but if doing different numbers throughout your project a custom block will be clearest.

deck26 wrote:

zp100 wrote:

A really easy way would be:

This will give either 3 or 5. Change the 1 at the end to a 3 to make it pick 5 or 7.

Or change the second 2 to 3 and leave the 1 at the end alone. If you just want to pick between two numbers there's always a similar method but if doing different numbers throughout your project a custom block will be clearest.

Changing the second 2 to a 3 would make it 3 or 6. And, you could make this with a custom block. It would look like this:

zp100 wrote:

deck26 wrote:

zp100 wrote:

A really easy way would be:

This will give either 3 or 5. Change the 1 at the end to a 3 to make it pick 5 or 7.

Or change the second 2 to 3 and leave the 1 at the end alone. If you just want to pick between two numbers there's always a similar method but if doing different numbers throughout your project a custom block will be clearest.

Changing the second 2 to a 3 would make it 3 or 6. And, you could make this with a custom block. It would look like this:

My mistake, must have been distracted! Random 2 to 3 times 2 plus 1 gives 5 or 7. Apologies for any confusion.

If making a custom block though much easier to just use random 1 to 2 to choose first or second.

or

drmcw wrote:

or

Yes, that would probably be the simplest, but my idea doesn't require a list.

Thanks guys for the advice, but earlier in the thread I found a solution,

blakelarson19 wrote:

Thanks guys for the advice, but earlier in the thread I found a solution,

Don't nest the ifs, because if Number Help = 1, it can't become 2 before the next nested if statement

blakelarson19 wrote:

Thanks guys for the advice, but earlier in the thread I found a solution,

It would be much easier to just do

It would give the exact same result, but with fewer blocks and less space.