I am relatively new to C, but I have been programming for a few years now.

I am writing a program for a college class, and I am confused why the scanf function below is not called, resulting in an infinite loop.

I have tried having my scanf outside the function, calling it twice, once from within, once from out, and a few other ways. I read online that the fflush might help, but it hasn't

Any suggestions?

```
// store starting variables
int players;

// print title

printf("*------------------------------------*\n");
printf("|                                    |\n");
printf("|                Wheel               |\n");
printf("|                 of                 |\n");
printf("|               Fortune              |\n");
printf("|                                    |\n");
printf("*------------------------------------*\n");
printf("\n\nHow many players are there?: ");

while(scanf("%d", &players) != 1 && players >= 0) {
    printf("That isn't a valid number of players. Try again: ");
    fflush(stdin);
}

```

**EDIT** JUST REALIZED I FORGOT TO MENTION SOMETHING. This program works perfectly when I enter an actual number. I want to make it safe for if the user enters something that isn't a string, it won't cause the program to loop infinitely.