Java – The condition in my while loop doesn’t seem to be correct?

Try to write a program, throw 3 dice and once you get 3 6s in a row, it prints out how many attempts have been made. There is a problem at the end of the code, || The difference between &&&, as if the opposite, see….

package javaapplication12;
import java.util.*;

public class JavaApplication12 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
  Random rand = new Random();
   this should try to cast a die 3 times and keep doing that until we get 3 6s in a row and counter 
   how many tries it takes to get that.
  int array[] = new int[3];  creating 3 places for castin our die 3 times in a row
  int counter1 = 0;  creating a counter to track each time we try to cast 3 die ( 3 cast = 1 try)
  do{

counter1++; 
      System.out.println("try " + counter1);  prints out counter in the beginning of every try.

for (int counter = 0; counter < array.length; counter++ ){
          array[counter]=(rand.nextInt(6)+1);   a loop that fills the array with random numbers from 1-6
      }
      for(int x: array)
          {System.out.println(x); } // this is for our own to check if we have 3 6s in a row,
                                    prints out all the numbers in out array
  }

so this is the I'veusing part, i've written 3 scenarios that can be written for the condtion in our
   do- while loop...

while (array[0]+array[1]+array[2] != 18);  this works just fine.

while (array[0] !=6 || array[1] != 6 || array[2] != 6);  imo this should not work but surprisingly it does

while (array[0] !=6 && array[1] != 6 && array[2] != 6);  this should work, but it doesnt.

} 
}

I believe your confusion comes from De Morgan’s laws of negation && changes to || and vice versa when you reject a single condition.

Or simply:

!( A && B) == ! A || ! B
! (A || B) == ! A && ! B

In your case, you want to do this:

!( array[0] == 6 && array[1] == 6 && array[2] == 6)

a.k.a. “Although the first is 6, the second is 6, and the third is 6 is incorrect”

Due to the above law, in order to put ! Bring in, you need to change &&&s to ||, leading

!( array[0] == 6) || ! (array[1] == 6) || ! (array[2] == 6)

Simplified to

array[0] != 6 || array[1] != 6 || array[2] != 6