From: Matthew Moss Date: 2006-06-25T22:45:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Stumped:beginners question > if (reply !='yes' || reply != 'no' ) > puts ' Please answer "yes" or "no".' This is a problem. No matter what answer you provide, at least one of the two inequality conditions will be true, which means the || expression will always be true. Try this instead: if (reply != 'yes' && reply != 'no) puts 'Please answer "yes" or "no".'