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Homework: Rock Paper Scissors game. I've created an enumeration: enum Gesture{ROCK,PAPER,SCISSORS}; from which I want to compare values to decide who wins--computer or human. Setting the values works just fine, and the comparisons work properly (paper covers rock, rock crushes scissors, scissors cuts paper). However, I cannot get my tie to work. The user is declared as the winner any time there's a tie. Ahhh...crap...this will clarify: userPick is a String with values rock , paper , or scissors . I'm unable to use == to compare userPick to computerPick , which, as you can see below, is cast as type Gesture from my enum . if(computer == 1) computerPick = Gesture.ROCK; else if(computer == 2) computerPick = Gesture.PAPER; else computerPick = Gesture.SCISSORS; if(userPick.equals(computerPick)) { msg = "tie"; ++tieGames; } etc.... I am guessing that there's an issue with rock not being equal to ROCK , or the String userPick not being able to match Gesture computerPick because the latter isn't a String . However, I'm not able to find an example of a similar circumstance in my textbook or Oracle's Java Tutorials, so I'm not sure how to correct the problem... Any hints?

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