I am trying to write the Blackjack program. I dont know where i am going wrong. please help. Thanks

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

  **Your code so far**


let count = 0;

function cc(card) {
// Only change code below this line
var add = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
var min = [ 'J', 'Q', 'K', 'A'];
if (card in add == true){
  count ++;
}
else if (card in min || card == 10){
  count--;
}else {
  count = count + 0;
}
if (count <= 0){
  return count+" Hold";
}else {  
  return count+" Bet";
}
// Only change code above this line
}

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/98.0.4758.82 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Counting Cards

Link to the challenge:

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Try some debugging statements:

let count = 0;

function cc(card) {
// Only change code below this line
var add = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
var min = [ 'J', 'Q', 'K', 'A'];
if (card in add){
  console.log(`lo: ${card}`);
  count ++;
}
else if (card in min || card === 10) {
  console.log(`hi: ${card}`);
  count--;
} else {
  console.log(`mid: ${card}`);
  count = count + 0;
}
if (count <= 0){
  return count+" Hold";
} else {  
  return count+" Bet";
}
// Only change code above this line  oops!
}

cc(2); cc(3); cc(7); cc('K'); cc('A');
count = 0;
cc(2); cc(3); cc(4); cc(5); console.log(cc(6));

This prints

lo: 2
lo: 3
mid: 7
mid: K
mid: A
lo: 2
lo: 3
lo: 4
mid: 5
mid: 6
3 Bet

So, your card sorting is not sorting 5 and 6 into the correct category. Or ‘K’ and ‘A’.

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4

Thank you will try that and next time will elaborate on the problem in detail.

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