Scrabble Simulation Java Program Help

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Hey everyone,
For setting up Exercise 12.15, I was unsure how to do this. Originally I planned to add another value of " " to alphabet to represent wild card, and then do a separate if loop for if this occurred but I realized " " is not a character so it doesn't work. Can you give me an idea of how to perform this exercise 12.15?

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Exercise 12.15. In real Scrabble, there are some blank tiles that can be
used as wild cards; that is, a blank tile can be used to represent any letter.
Think of an algorithm for canSpell that deals with wild cards. Implement it into your code.

Posted 15-Nov-15 7:15am

gettysburggal63

Updated 16-Nov-15 9:36am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Nov-15 13:54pm

Sorry, a request for suggestions is not a question. We really need your question, to provide some help.
—SA

jeffbezzz 5-Apr-22 19:53pm

Where is the code he is trying to show?

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VISWESWARAN1998 · Answer 1 · 2015-11-15T08:11:00

Solution 1

I don't know where you have a problem.Please update your question with a specific problem.
But when I tried to solve the error by copying your code above it seems that you have additionally added "}" at the last of your program .when I removed it, the output comes "true" .
I think this is the output of your Boolean.Hope this helps.

Posted 15-Nov-15 8:11am

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Updated 15-Nov-15 8:17am

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gettysburggal63 15-Nov-15 14:22pm

That must've been the issue! When I ran the program, nothing showed up in the console, but now it works. Can you help me to implement exercise 12.15?

[no name] 15-Nov-15 14:58pm

Kindly excuse me because I don't know how to play scrabble.So,I can only help you If you have a specific problem in your code.

gettysburggal63 15-Nov-15 15:58pm

Oh, I see. Basically what I need to do is I need to add another possibility for a blank tile, ' ', and if a person draws this tile in myTiles, it can act as any one tile they are missing in the tiles needed for a word they are trying to spell!

gettysburggal63 15-Nov-15 15:59pm

For example, if they were trying to spell jib and they had quijio and a blank tile, the blank tile could be used as a 'b' and they could still spell the word

[no name] 16-Nov-15 8:26am

I hope this is the concept of the game.Please inform if this is wrong.

solution:
Try adding blank tile to your "myTiles",

quote:
String tiles = "quijo*";
String targetWord = "jib";
* represents a blank tile
2<3
so your condition becomes false
and so try adding this to increment a single value

if(index!=alphabet[a])
myTilesCounter[a]++;

so 3=3
true

Hope this helps.

gettysburggal63 16-Nov-15 15:33pm

Thank you very much! I did it slightly differently but I got it to work with your ideas :)

[no name] 16-Nov-15 21:30pm

You are welcome!

jeffbezzz 5-Apr-22 19:53pm

WHere is his code

Member 12064865 · Answer 2 · 2015-11-15T08:30:00

Solution 2

please check your brackets! that seems to be the issue

Posted 15-Nov-15 8:30am

Member 12064865