Learning c++ atm and this seems like a dumb question but can someone please tell me why the guessing game i made isnt working?

while(guess!=ans1){
        cout << "Enter your first guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    } 

This is the loop I am using but its not working can someone please tell me how I fix this?? (I am not using an ide btw.)

EDIT

Full code

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int ans1 = 3;
    int ans2 = 7;
    int ans3 = 12;
    int guess;
    while (guess != ans1)
    {
        cout << "Enter your first guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!";
    while (guess != ans2)
    {
        cout << "Enter your second guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!";
    while (guess != ans3)
    {
        cout << "Enter your final guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou win!!!";
    return 0;
}

>Solution :

I offer you some alternatives:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    using std::cout; // this allows you to only use cout instead of std::cout
    using std::cin; // and not import the entire namespace. Also, only within 
                   // the main function. So no global pollution.
    
    int const ans1 = 3; // these do not change, so they should be const
    int const ans2 = 7;
    int const ans3 = 12;
    int guess = 0;
    while (guess != ans1)
    {
        cout << "Enter your first guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!\n";
    while (guess != ans2)
    {
        cout << "Enter your second guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!";
    while (guess != ans3)
    {
        cout << "Enter your final guess: ";
        cin >> guess;
    }
    cout << "\nYou win!!!";
}

But surely you notice we copied a lot of code. This is where we can make use of arrays. A lot of free tutorials will teach you C-style arrays, but this is the C++ way to do it:

#include <array>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    using std::array;
    using std::cout;
    using std::cin;
 
    // alternatively
    
    array<int, 3> const answers = {3, 7, 12};
    int guess = 0;
    
    for( std::size_t i = 0; i < answers.size(); i++ ){ // (iterating loop, the "standard" for loop
        while( guess != answers[i] ){
            cout << "Enter your first guess: ";
            cin >> guess;
        }
        cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!\n";    
    }
    
    // alternatively
    
    for( auto const& answer : answers ){ // range based loop (more complicated to understand)
        while( guess != answers ){
            cout << "Enter your first guess: ";
            cin >> guess;
        }
        cout << "\nYou guessed correctly!\n";    
    }
    
    
    return 0;
}