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# Scrabble Score
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Welcome to Scrabble Score on Exercism's Zig Track.
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If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
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## Introduction
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[Scrabble][wikipedia] is a word game where players place letter tiles on a board to form words.
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Each letter has a value.
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A word's score is the sum of its letters' values.
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[wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble
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## Instructions
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Your task is to compute a word's Scrabble score by summing the values of its letters.
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The letters are valued as follows:
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| Letter | Value |
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| ---------------------------- | ----- |
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| A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T | 1 |
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| D, G | 2 |
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| B, C, M, P | 3 |
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| F, H, V, W, Y | 4 |
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| K | 5 |
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| J, X | 8 |
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| Q, Z | 10 |
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For example, the word "cabbage" is worth 14 points:
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- 3 points for C
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- 1 point for A
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- 3 points for B
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- 3 points for B
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- 1 point for A
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- 2 points for G
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- 1 point for E
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## Source
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### Created by
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- @ee7
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### Based on
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Inspired by the Extreme Startup game - https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup
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