Complete question:
Scrabble is a word game in which words are constructed from letter tiles, each letter tile containing a point value. The value of a word is the sum of each tile's points added to any points provided by the word's placement on the game board. Write a program using the given dictionary of letters and point values that takes a word as input and outputs the base total value of the word (before being put onto a board). Ex: If the input is: PYTHON
the output is: 14
part of the code:
tile_dict = { 'A': 1, 'B': 3, 'C': 3, 'D': 2, 'E': 1, 'F': 4, 'G': 2, 'H': 4, 'I': 1, 'J': 8, 'K': 5, 'L': 1, 'M': 3, 'N': 1, 'O': 1, 'P': 3, 'Q': 10, 'R': 1, 'S': 1, 'T': 1, 'U': 1, 'V': 4, 'W': 4, 'X': 8, 'Y': 4, 'Z': 10 }
Answer:
Complete the program as thus:
word = input("Word: ").upper()
points = 0
for i in range(len(word)):
for key, value in tile_dict.items():
if key == word[i]:
points+=value
break
print("Points: "+str(points))
Explanation:
This gets input from the user in capital letters
word = input("Word: ").upper()
This initializes the number of points to 0
points = 0
This iterates through the letters of the input word
for i in range(len(word)):
For every letter, this iterates through the dictionary
for key, value in tile_dict.items():
This locates each letters
if key == word[i]:
This adds the point
points+=value
The inner loop is exited
break
This prints the total points
print("Points: "+str(points))
