Hello All, this is basically my first tackle on programming in itself. I chose python, because it seems pretty straight-forward for now. I'm on HtRegz's 2nd tutorial now, and am feeling like i'm understanding it and progressing just fine, but the while loop is just a little difficult for me to understand at first, so here is where i might need a little help

Code:
from random import *          
answer = randint(1,25)         # I'm aware this assigns a random number of 1-25 to the var 'answer'
guess = 0
counter = 0                         # I'm having a hard time figuring out how the counter works
print "Welcome to the Number Guessing Game"
while guess != answer :       
        guess = input("Please Guess a Number between 1 and 25: ")
        if guess < answer :
                print "To low."
        elif guess > answer :
                print "To high."
        counter = counter + 1
print "Congrats you guessed the correct number (",answer,") in",counter,"tries."  
 # I know they are are random numbers, but if you guess the right number, the counter goes up 1, but  i don't understand why it goes up to 1, because there wasn't a statement anywhere that said they were equal to each other.
Now I feel like i answered my own question

little help here ...