exercism/dart/scrabble-score

Scrabble Score

Welcome to Scrabble Score on Exercism's Dart Track. If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out HELP.md.

Instructions

Given a word, compute the Scrabble score for that word.

Letter Values

You'll need these:

Letter                           Value
A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T       1
D, G                               2
B, C, M, P                         3
F, H, V, W, Y                      4
K                                  5
J, X                               8
Q, Z                               10

Examples

"cabbage" should be scored as worth 14 points:

• 3 points for C
• 1 point for A, twice
• 3 points for B, twice
• 2 points for G
• 1 point for E

And to total:

• 3 + 2*1 + 2*3 + 2 + 1
• = 3 + 2 + 6 + 3
• = 5 + 9
• = 14

Extensions

• You can play a double or a triple letter.
• You can play a double or a triple word.

Source

Created by

• @jvarness

Contributed to by

• @Stargator
• @kytrinyx

Based on

Inspired by the Extreme Startup game - https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup