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Scrabble 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.
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:
Scrabble Score is featured as part of #48in24 challenge. Solve it in C, Python, and Scheme to earn the gold award.
You've not yet completed it in any languages.
