Counting Cards Function Issues

Tell us what’s happening: I am working on getting the card counting program to work but I can’t seem to find the source for the error that I am getting. “0 Hold” is the only one that is working. All the rest are not presenting the correct results.

I have looked on the hint page and my code looks identical to the naked eye but I am sure there is some subtle difference I am missing that would allow me to get it to pass.

If anyone can spot the issue, I would be incredibly grateful.

Your code so far


var count = 0;

function cc(card) {
  // Only change code below this line
  switch(card){
  case 2:
  case 3: 
  case 4:
  case 5:
  case 6:
    count--;
    break;

  case 10:
  case "J":
  case "Q":
  case "K":
  case "A":
    count++;
    break;
  }
if (count > 0) {
  return count + " Bet";
} else {
  return count + " Hold";
}
  // Only change code above this line
}

// Add/remove calls to test your function.
// Note: Only the last will display
cc(2); cc(3); cc(7); cc('K'); cc('A');

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-javascript/counting-cards/

Switch the plusses and minuses… Having higher cards pass by is good for the player :slight_smile:

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Ohhhhh ok thank you :grinning: