if player_health ??? 0: print("Game Over") The problem wasn’t the logic. It was the symbol. He needed a less than or equal to sign — that graceful little ≤ — but his standard keyboard only offered the blunt tools of < and = separately.
He saved his file, scratched Ada behind the ears, and whispered to the quiet room: “Some things aren’t missing. They’re just less than or equal to being found.” less than or equal to sign on keyboard
The real victory, though, wasn't debugging. It was knowing that somewhere under the plastic keys, the symbol had been hiding all along — waiting for someone to care enough to summon it. if player_health
He smiled, replaced <= with ≤ in his comment, and ran the code. It worked. scratched Ada behind the ears