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# Scrabble Score
Welcome to Scrabble Score on Exercism's Elixir Track.
If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
## Introduction
[Scrabble][wikipedia] is a word game where players place letter tiles on a board to form words.
Each letter has a value.
A word's score is the sum of its letters' values.
[wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble
## Instructions
Your task is to compute a word's Scrabble score by summing the values of its letters.
The letters are valued as follows:
| 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 |
For example, the word "cabbage" is worth 14 points:
- 3 points for C
- 1 point for A
- 3 points for B
- 3 points for B
- 1 point for A
- 2 points for G
- 1 point for E
## Source
### Created by
- @rubysolo
### Contributed to by
- @andrewsardone
- @angelikatyborska
- @Cohen-Carlisle
- @dalexj
- @devonestes
- @etrepum
- @jinyeow
- @kytrinyx
- @lpil
- @neenjaw
- @parkerl
- @sotojuan
- @Teapane
- @waiting-for-dev
### Based on
Inspired by the Extreme Startup game - https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup