Tallying result of an iterated loop

Authoring Twine
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Twine Version: Harlowe 2.3.14

I’m pretty new to Twine, and I’m trying to figure out how to create a loop for that gives the player a number of prizes based on their overall score. Let’s say the player gets 5 prizes.

Each time the loop runs, a random number from 1 to 20 is generated. If the value is below 10, the player gets a cookie. If the value is above 10, the player gets a doughnut. If the value is 10 exactly, the player gets a cake. The loop count then increases by one, and the loop runs again until the count reaches the number of wins (5, in this case.)

At the end of the loop, I want to return to the story and give the result in a summary statement:

You earned $cookie cookies, $doughnut doughnuts, and $cake cakes!

I’ve tried writing this a number of ways, but I keep getting the same basic problem – I can’t figure out how to write a loop that runs, increments, and then tests the count to decide if it should exit and return. Any help with this would be most appreciated.

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If I’m understanding what you’re describing, I don’t think you need to test a count to decide when to exit: you can just loop five times, using (for:) and (range:).

(set: $cookie to 0)(set: $doughnut to 0)(set: $cake to 0)
(for: each _i, ...(range: 1,5))[
	(set: _r to (random: 1,20))
	(if: _r < 10)[(set: $cookie to it + 1)]
	(elseif: _r > 10)[(set: $doughnut to it + 1)]
	(else:)[(set $cake to it + 1)]
]
You earned $cookie cookies, $doughnut doughnuts, and $cake cakes!