jonathanly/scrabble_calculator

Scrabble Score Calculator

Running the program

• Download
• Navigate to root directory
• run irb -r ./lib/scrabble.rb
• Hooray! Now you're ready to get calculating

Using the program

In the terminal, create an instance of the Scrabble class

> game = Scrabble.new

score(string)

Takes a string as an argument and calculates the strings scrabble score. An empty string ('') or nil will return 0.

> game.score('example')
=> 18

> game.score('')
=> 0

> game.score(nil)
=> 0

double_word(string) & triple_word(string)

Also takes a string argument and returns the string's double word and triple word score respectively.

> game.double_word('example')
=> 36

> game.triple_letter_word('example')
=> 54

double_letter(string, letter) & triple_letter(string, letter)

Takes two string arguments: the string and the letter to apply the double or triple letter score.

> game.double_letter('example', 'x')
=> 26

> game.triple_letter('example', 'e')
=> 20