hello! I'm supposed to write a wordguess program that basically runs like the hangman game on iphone, here is my code:

import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Wordguess123 {
public static String replaceCharAt(String s, int pos, char c) {
    return s.substring(0,pos) + c + s.substring(pos+1);
 }
 public static void main(String[] args){
        Scanner Jerry = new Scanner(System.in);
        Random Rong = new Random(10);
        String word;
        boolean guess = true;
        int i = 0;
        String win = "YOUWIN!!!!";
        System.out.println("This is Jerry Rong's wordguess game!");
        
        switch (Rong.nextInt()) {
            
            case 1: word = "PROPORTION";
            break;
            case 2: word = "DISTANCE";
            break;
            case 3: word = "MOMENTUM";
            break;
            case 4: word = "HELLO";
            break;
            case 5: word = "GRAPHIC";
            break;
            case 6: word = "ACCELERATION";
            break;
            case 7: word = "ENERGY";
            break;
            case 8: word = "NINJA";
            break;
            case 9: word = "FINALS";
            break;
            default: word = "CHRISTMAS";
            break;
     }
     
     int length = word.length();
     String blank = null;
     for (int h = 0; h < length; h++)
     {  blank = "_" + " ";}
     
     System.out.println(blank);
     String PeoplesGuess = blank;
     
     do {
      i++;
      String letter = in.next();
     letter = letter.toUpperCase();
     if (letter =! "!") {
     
        for (int k = 0; k < length; k++){

                    if (letter.charAt(0) == word.charAt(k)) {
                        current = replaceCharAt(current, k, letter.charAt(0));
                    }
                    
                }
        
        if (current.equals(word)) {System.out.println("You win!!");     } 
        System.out.println ("you used" + i + "guesses ");
        System.out.println ("The secret word is" + word  );
            }
            
     else 
     {
         System.out.println("Guess the word in uppercase.");
         String guessedword = in.next();
         guess = false;
         if (guessedword.equals(word)) {System.out.println(win));}
         else System.out.println("Haha you lose");
         System.out.println ("you used" + i + "guesses ");
        System.out.println ("The secret word is" + word  );
         
         
        }
    
        
        
        
}
while ( i < 27 && guess = true);

So....

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or maybe the code doesn't give the correct output?

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when i compile it, it says ; required in line 73 but i dont see any error

well ...
either this is not your entire code, or I don't doubt you're getting error messages.
a class should always end with a } to close the class scope, not with

while ( i < 27 && guess = true);

Also you appear to have an extra ) here:

if (guessedword.equals(word)) {System.out.println(win)[B][U])[/U][/B];}

Also you appear to have an extra ) here:

if (guessedword.equals(word)) {System.out.println(win)[B][U])[/U][/B];}

I had the same problem in JCreator, but this ocde runs fine in Netbeans.
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I kind of doubt that.
as you said yourself, when you compile, the compiler says:

when i compile it, it says ; required in line 73 but i dont see any error

that extra ) is what the compiler refers to. it expects a ; not a )

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