Counting Cards JS Challenge

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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi, can someone tell me why this isn’t working? it looks good to me but maybe i’m overlooking something.

Your code so far



function cc(card) {
  var count = 0;
  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');

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Your Browser User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/counting-cards

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You should not be resetting count to 0 every time that the function executes. In this case the solution is expected to use a global variable.

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