Need help with simple guessing game!

[ghost0fkarma]

That's because in if/elif statements you call game() without numGuesses parameter, which means it will always be 10 (default). So instead do this

 game(ranNum, numGuesses) 

in lines 9 and 13. As an extra suggeston: what you are doing is calling functions recursively. You would get a much safer and "cleaner" code by using a while loop instead.

Thank you very much good sir!