Design Pattern in Java for Getting Input and Acting on it

I'm trying to make a tic-tac-toe game and I'm encountering a lot of copy-paste work for inputs. I'm trying to figure out what design pattern and implementation works for prompting the user, collecting their input, comparing it and then acting by assigning a value. Right now my code looks like this.

public void promptPlayerCount(BufferedReader in) throws IOException {
    String  input;

    // initial prompt
    System.out.println("How many players?");
    input = "try again";
    while (input.equals("try again")) {
        input = in.readLine();
        // extract data and check it
        switch (Integer.parseInt(input)) {
            case 1:
                // assignment
                playerCount = 1;
                break;
            case 2:
                playerCount = 2;
                break;
            default:
                input = "try again";
                // clarified instructions
                System.out.println("please enter 1 or 2");
        }
    }
}

There's a part of me that thinks I could make a function (maybe a factory?) that allows me to generate a function by passing the constructing function the details of the initial prompt, the extraction method, the assignment action and the clarification message.

Would this be best done with lambda functions?