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Bonus Activity: Elmo's Rainbow Cookie Quest

🍪 Sesame Street Python Lab: Elmo’s Rainbow Cookie Quest! 🍪

Elmo is on a mission to collect three different rainbow cookies on Sesame Street! 🌈🍪 But be careful… Cookie Monster is lurking, and he might gobble up your precious cookies! 😱 Your job is to help Elmo collect his favorite cookies while avoiding Cookie Monster’s munchies.

💡 Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will practice:

✅ Using lists to store and manage data.

✅ Writing functions with single return values.

✅ Using while loops to control the flow of the game.

✅ Applying if statements to handle choices and random events.

✅ Validating user input to ensure correct responses (no try/except).

✅ Using string formatting and ANSI color codes for a cool, colorful game! 🎨

📜 Instructions

Step 1: Set Up Sesame Street 🌆

Begin by displaying a colorful introduction message using ANSI colors.
Explain the game: Elmo wants three different cookies, but Cookie Monster might try to eat them first!
Set up a list of possible cookie colors that Elmo can collect.

Step 2: Display Cookie Choices 🍪

Present a numbered menu of available cookies.
Allow the user to pick a cookie using input.
Validate the input to ensure it's a number between 1-5.
If the input is invalid, Elmo will complain and ask for a new choice.

Step 3: Avoid Cookie Monster! 😱

- Once a cookie is chosen, randomly determine if Cookie Monster appears.
- There is a 25% chance he will gobble up the cookie!
- If he doesn’t appear, Elmo successfully collects the cookie.

Step 4: Track the Cookies 📝

- Add collected cookies to a list.
- Prevent duplicate cookies (Elmo doesn’t want two of the same!).
- Keep track of Elmo’s collection and display it after each round.

Step 5: Win the Game! 🏆

Once Elmo collects three different cookies, display a victory message using rotating ANSI colors.
Congratulate the player for completing Elmo’s Rainbow Cookie Quest! 🎉

🚀 Extra Challenges (If You’re Feeling Brave!)

🔹 Customize Cookie Monster's randomness: Change the chance of him appearing to make the game harder or easier!

🔹 Add more cookies: Expand the list to include new cookie flavors!

🔹 Use different ASCII art: Make Cookie Monster and Elmo say more funny things!

🔹 Make it multiplayer: Have two players take turns collecting cookies!

Sample Output

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