Question

Function name: crazy_scrabble

Parameters : word (string), current points (int), double word score (boolean)

Returns: int

Description: You are playing scrabble with a friend, and you thought you knew how to

calculate how many points you have, but your friend suddenly starts making up all these

crazy rules. Write a function that helps keep track of how many points you have with

these new rules:

●Each 'k', 'm', 'p', 'x', 'y', and 'z' earns you 7 points.

●'c' and 's' are worth 4 points each.

●Each vowel ('a','e','i','o','u') you causes you to lose 2 points.

●All other letters are worth 1 point.

●Each time a letter is reused in a word, the player loses 1 point.

●If your word is more than 6 letters long, you get a bonus of 3 points.

●If the double word score is True and the point total for the word is positive ( > 0), the player receives double the points for the word.

The function should return the player’s new point total. Assume that the words will not

be empty strings and will only consist of lowercase letters from a to z.

Note:

​A player cannot have an overall negative point total. Return 0 if the point total

would be negative after the new word the player has played. For example, if a player

currently has 7 points but would lose 9 points from their new word, the player should

have 0 points now, not -2 points.

Answer 1

Thanks for posting the question, we are glad to help you. Here is the complete function that computes the score of a word based on the given rules. All the rules are taken into consideration and commented out in the method

Here is the code

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import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

public class ScrabbleWordCalculator {

   public static void main(String[] arg) {
      
       System.out.println("Score: "+crazy_scrabble("house", 0, false));

   }
  
   //Function name: crazy_scrabble
   //Parameters : word (string), current points (int), double word score (boolean)
   //Returns: int
  
   public static int crazy_scrabble(String word, int currentPoints, boolean doubleWordScore) {

      
       word = word.toLowerCase();
       // If your word is more than 6 letters long, you get a bonus of 3 points.
       currentPoints += word.length() > 6 ? 3 : 0;

       // we are using a HashSet to store the characters and see if its repeating
       Set<Character> characters = new HashSet<>(26);

       for (char letter : word.toCharArray()) {

           //// we are using a HashSet to store the characters and see if its repeating
           if (characters.contains(letter)) {
               // Each time a letter is reused in a word, the player loses 1 point.
               currentPoints -= 1;

           } else {
               // Each 'k', 'm', 'p', 'x', 'y', and 'z' earns you 7 points.
               if (letter == 'k' || letter == 'm' || letter == 'p' || letter == 'x' || letter == 'y'
                       || letter == 'z') {
                   currentPoints += 7;

                   // 'c' and 's' are worth 4 points each.
               } else if (letter == 'c' || letter == 's') {
                   currentPoints += 2;

                   // Each vowel ('a','e','i','o','u') you causes you to lose 2 points.
               } else if (letter == 'a' || letter == 'e' || letter == 'i' || letter == 'o' || letter == 'u') {

                   currentPoints -= 2;

               } else {
                   // All other letters are worth 1 point.
                   currentPoints += 1;

               }

           }
           characters.add(letter);

       }

       // ​A player cannot have an overall negative point total.
       currentPoints = currentPoints < 0 ? 0 : currentPoints;
       // If the double word score is True and the point total for the word is positive
       return doubleWordScore ? 2 * currentPoints : currentPoints;

   }

}

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