hey guys I am new to the programming language and have an assignment due today and I am stuck on this. Its a scrable programming in C. I tried but cannot figure out how the main function should work out. Here is my code with the assignment instruction. If anyone can guide me through it.
Thanks

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Write an interactive program that will allow a user to play the word game Scramble. You will need to:

• Declare and use two character arrays:
o one for the “word to be guessed”
o one for the “scrambled word”
• Declare additional variables as needed
• Load the arrays
o “word to be guessed”
 Read a word from the file and store it in the “word to be guessed” array.
o “scrambled word”
 Read a word from the file and store it in the “scrambled word” array


Sample Output:

Welcome to Scramble
This is where you explain the instructions!

Here is the word: oerts

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
1
Here's is the scrambled word: oerts

Enter your guess:
store

you have used 1 of your guesses

Great job!
Do you want to play again? (y/n): y


Here is the word: otcpail

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
2
You are trying to unscramble: otcpail

Which letter do you need help with?: c

This is where c is located in the word
c------
Here's is the scrambled word: otcpail

Enter your guess:
coptail

you have used 1 of your guesses

Here is the word: otcpail

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
1
Here's is the scrambled word: otcpail

Enter your guess:
coplait

you have used 2 of your guesses

Here is the word: otcpail

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
1
Here's is the scrambled word: otcpail

Enter your guess:
captail

you have used 3 of your guesses

Here is the word: otcpail

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
1
Here's is the scrambled word: otcpail

Enter your guess:
caplait

you have used 4 of your guesses

Better luck next time
The word was capitol
Do you want to play again? (y/n): y


Here is the word: umnot

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
2
You are trying to unscramble: umnot

Which letter do you need help with?: m

This is where m is located in the word
m----
Here's is the scrambled word: umnot

Enter your guess:
motun

you have used 1 of your guesses

Here is the word: umnot

Select one of the following:
1 - Answer the entire word
2 - Get a hint before you guess
3 - I give up, show me the answer
3
The word you were trying to guess was mount

Better luck next time
The word was mount
Do you want to play again? (y/n): n


Come and play any time!
Press any key to continue . . .
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and here is my code so far....

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
#define SIZE 100

void Menu();//display the list of instrucitons
void Quit(char *again);//funciton for quiting the game
void clear(char default_array[SIZE]);//wipes out the arrays as the new game starts
int game_play_options();
int correct(char guess, char scrambled_word[SIZE], char word_to_be_guessed[SIZE], int *bad);

	
int main()//main function
{
	char word_to_be_guessed[SIZE]={'\0'};//array for the word to be guesseed
	char scrambled_word[SIZE]={'\0'};//array for the scrabled word
	char guessed_word[SIZE]={'\0'};//array for the guessed word
	char again='y';//for the quit funtion
	char selection;//choice to play
	char guess;//for users guess
	int bad=0;//counter for wrong guesses
	int progress;
	FILE *inptr;
	Menu();//calling menu funtion
	inptr=fopen("words.txt", "r");//opening the file

	while(again!='n' && again!='N')//if the user wants to play another game
	{
		clear(word_to_be_guessed);
		clear(scrambled_word);
		clear(guessed_word);
		fscanf(inptr,"%s", word_to_be_guessed);
		fscanf(inptr,"%s", scrambled_word);

		printf("Guess this word\n");
		printf("%s\n", scrambled_word);
		selection=game_play_options();
		if(selection =='c' || selection =='C')
		{
		printf("The word you were trying to guess was %s\n",word_to_be_guessed);
		}
		else if(selection =='a' || selection =='A')
		{
		printf("Okay now, guess the word\n");
		scanf("%s",&guessed_word);
		guess=guessed_word[SIZE];
		progress=correct(guess, scrambled_word, word_to_be_guessed, &bad);
		if(progress==0)
		{
			bad+=1;
		}
		if(bad==4)
			break;
		printf("You have guessed it wrong %d times\n", bad);
		printf("You have %d wrong guess left\n", 4-bad);
		}
		else
		{
			printf("Please enter appropriate selection...\n");
		}
		
		Quit(&again);
			
	}
		
		

	
	fclose(inptr);//closing the file
	return 0;
}


void Menu()
{
printf("******************************************************************\n\n");
printf("                  WELCOME TO SCRABLE!!\n\n\n");
printf("Please read the following instructions before you play\n");
printf("You will be presented with a word which is not in order\n");
printf("Guess the word looking at the letters\n");
printf("You can have up to four incorrect guesses\n");
printf("The game will be OVER when you have guessed the correct word!!\n");
printf("OR when you have guessed incorrectly FOUR times.\n\n");
printf("                       HAVE FUN!\n\n");
printf("****************************************************************** \n");
}
void clear(char default_array[SIZE])//wipes out the arrays as the new game starts
{
	int i=0;
	for(i=0; i<SIZE; i++)
	{
		default_array[i]='\0';
	}
}
void Quit(char *again)//funciton for quiting the game
{
	printf("Do you want to play another game(y/n)?");
	scanf(" %c", again);
	if(*again != 'y' && *again !='Y' && *again !='n' && *again !='N')
	{
	printf("Invalid selection, please chose(y/n)\n");
	Quit(again);
	}
	

}
int game_play_options()
{
	char choice;
	
	printf("Select one of the following:\n"); 
	printf("a -Answer the entire word\n"); 
	printf("b -Get a hint before you guess\n"); 
	printf("c -I give up, show me the answer\n");

	scanf("%c", &choice);
	return choice; 
}
int correct(char guess, char scrambled_word[SIZE], char word_to_be_guessed[SIZE], int *bad)
{
	if(guess=word_to_be_guessed[SIZE])
	{
		printf("YOU GUESSED IT CORRECT!!!!!\n\n");
		return 1;
	}
	else
	printf("You have guessed it worng\n");
	printf("Try again\n");
	printf("%s",scrambled_word);
	return 0;
}

Explanation of task - check
Current code - check
Explanation of what you have trouble with - nonexistent
Therefore - requesting us to read your code, understand what you did, try to correlate it with the task list, and try to figure out what you don't understand, and finally tell you what you need to do.

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