diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/guessing-game.md b/src/doc/trpl/guessing-game.md
index 431b7dc50a299..a400abfa3d8e8 100644
--- a/src/doc/trpl/guessing-game.md
+++ b/src/doc/trpl/guessing-game.md
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ fn main() {
 
     let mut guess = String::new();
 
-    let input = io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
+    io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
         .ok()
         .expect("Failed to read line");
 
-    println!("You guessed: {}", input);
+    println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
 }
 ```
 
@@ -302,12 +302,12 @@ project.
 There’s just one line of this first example left:
 
 ```rust,ignore
-    println!("You guessed: {}", input);
+    println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
 }
 ```
 
 This prints out the string we saved our input in. The `{}`s are a placeholder,
-and so we pass it `input` as an argument. If we had multiple `{}`s, we would
+and so we pass it `guess` as an argument. If we had multiple `{}`s, we would
 pass multiple arguments:
 
 ```rust