Long Live The Computer

My original goal for this project was to create a simple little riddle game where the player has to input the solution to win. If they made an incorrect input their life points would decrease by one. However, since I couldn't get the keypad to only return an incorrect result if something was pressed, I instead made a program that killed my computer (narratively). You can see what I was originally trying to accomplish at the bottom of my preview code.

Simply follow the instruction on the LCD screen to destroy your computer (narratively).

Materials:
1 - Arduino UNO
1- LCD
1 - Keypad
1- 10k potentiometer
23- Jumper wires

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	// include the library code:
	#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
	#include <Keypad.h>
	const byte ROWS = 4; //four rows
	const byte COLS = 4; //four columns
	//define the cymbols on the buttons of the keypads
	char hexaKeys[ROWS][COLS] = {
	{'1','2','3','A'},
	{'4','5','6','B'},
	{'7','8','9','C'},
	{'*','0','#','D'}
	};
	byte rowPins[ROWS] = {7, 6, 5, 4}; //connect to the row pinouts of the keypad
	byte colPins[COLS] = {A0, A1, A2, A3}; //connect to the column pinouts of the keypad
	//initialize an instance of class NewKeypad
	Keypad customKeypad = Keypad( makeKeymap(hexaKeys), rowPins, colPins, ROWS, COLS);
	// initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins
	LiquidCrystal lcd(8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13);
	byte customChar[] = {
	B11011,
	B10101,
	B10001,
	B01010,
	B00100,
	B00000,
	B00000,
	B00000
	};
	int tries = 3;
	void setup() {
	Serial.begin(9600);
	// set up the LCD's number of columns and rows:
	lcd.begin(16, 2);
	lcd.createChar(0, customChar);
	// Print a message to the LCD.
	lcd.print("Solve to enter");
	delay(1000);
	// set the cursor to column 0, line 1
	// (note: line 1 is the second row, since counting begins with 0):
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("Press 1");
	lcd.setCursor(0,1);
	lcd.print("Com Health");
	lcd.setCursor(11,1);
	lcd.write(byte(0));
	delay(5000);
	}
	void loop() {
	lcd.setCursor(12,1);
	lcd.print(tries);
	int customKey = customKeypad.getKey();
	if (customKey){
	Serial.println(customKey);
	}
	if(customKey == 49){
	//lcd.clear();
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("Do you tire ");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("of your ");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("computer?");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("Press 2 ");
	}
	if(customKey == 50){
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("Destroy it now");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("press 3.......");
	}
	if(customKey == 51){
	tries = tries - 1;
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("Destroying...");
	}
	if(tries == 0){
	lcd.clear();
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("The computer is");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("dead, ");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("long live ");
	delay(2000);
	lcd.setCursor(0,0);
	lcd.print("the computer ");
	delay(2000);
	}
	//failed wrong input
	/*if(customKey != 52) {
	tries = tries - 1;
	lcd.setCursor(13,1);
	lcd.print(tries);
	}*/
	//failed timer
	/* while (x > 0){
	if (customKey){
	Serial.println(customKey);
	}
	lcd.setCursor(0,1);
	lcd.print(x);
	x = x -1;
	delay(1000);
	if (x == 0){
	lcd.setCursor(0,1);
	lcd.print("Game Over.");
	for(;;);
	}
	}*/
	// print the number of seconds since reset:
	//lcd.print(millis() / 1000);
	}

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