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1 # Scrabble Score 2 3 Welcome to Scrabble Score on Exercism's Perl 5 Track. 4 If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`. 5 6 ## Instructions 7 8 Given a word, compute the Scrabble score for that word. 9 10 ## Letter Values 11 12 You'll need these: 13 14 ```text 15 Letter Value 16 A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T 1 17 D, G 2 18 B, C, M, P 3 19 F, H, V, W, Y 4 20 K 5 21 J, X 8 22 Q, Z 10 23 ``` 24 25 ## Examples 26 27 "cabbage" should be scored as worth 14 points: 28 29 - 3 points for C 30 - 1 point for A, twice 31 - 3 points for B, twice 32 - 2 points for G 33 - 1 point for E 34 35 And to total: 36 37 - `3 + 2*1 + 2*3 + 2 + 1` 38 - = `3 + 2 + 6 + 3` 39 - = `5 + 9` 40 - = 14 41 42 ## Extensions 43 44 - You can play a double or a triple letter. 45 - You can play a double or a triple word. 46 47 ## Source 48 49 ### Created by 50 51 - @bistik 52 53 ### Contributed to by 54 55 - @darksuji 56 - @drewbs 57 - @kytrinyx 58 - @m-dango 59 - @rfilipo 60 - @sshine 61 62 ### Based on 63 64 Inspired by the Extreme Startup game - https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup