Guess the dice roll mini-game

[tawnnx]

Hey everyone, I just finished my first program, I've been learning python for about 3 days now.

I am wondering if there are ways I can make my code smaller / optimized more.

import random

userScore = 0
userTries = 7
print ("Welcome to the dice game! where you guess the number thats about to be rolled. Get a score of 3 to win!")
print ("Your score is:", userScore, "\n")

while (userScore <= 3):
	while (userTries >= 0):

		diceNum = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

		print ("Tries left:", userTries, "\n")
		userGuess = input ("Enter your guess: " )

			# checks if users guess is NOT in the diceNum list
		if (int(userGuess) not in diceNum):
			print (userGuess, "\nis not a valid guess, try again.")
			userTries -= 1

			#if the user guess IS IN the diceNum list it continues with the next statement
		else:
			diceNum = random.choice(diceNum)
			print ("\nThe dice rolled...", diceNum)

			#Checks if the random generated number matches the guess
		if (int(diceNum) == int(userGuess)):
			userScore += 1
			print ("You guessed it right! +1")
			print ("Your score:", userScore)

			# checks if user guessed right if no take away a point
		elif (int(diceNum) != int(userGuess)):
			userTries -= 1
			print ("You guessed wrong try again -1 try")
			print ("Your score: ", userScore)

			#only solution i found to not get stuck in one of the while loops when user tries = 0 or score = 3
		if (userTries == 0):
			break
		elif (userScore == 3):
			break
	if (userTries == 0):
		break
	elif (userScore == 3):
		break


print ("Goodbye!")

Appreciate any feedback!

Thanks