Review Algorithmic Thinking by Building a Dice Game - Step 14

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi all,

I’ve been struggling with this for quite a bit and don’t understand where my mistake(s) is.

The general flow of my checkForStraights function:

  • sort the diceValuesArr in ascending order and then create a set, so duplicates are removed.
  • define an array of arrays for both large and small straights
  • iterate over each of these arrays and compare with the set from earlier. If they match, update the radio options as instructed.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->


/* file: styles.css */


/* file: script.js */
// User Editable Region

const checkForStraights = (arr) => {
  const sorted = arr.sort((a, b) => a - b);
  const uniqueNumbers = [...new Set(sorted)];
  
  const largeStraights = [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]];
  const smallStraights = [[1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6]];

  for (let arr of largeStraights) {
    if (arr === uniqueNumbers) {
      updateRadioOption(4, 40);
      updateRadioOption(3, 30);
      break;
    }
  }

  for (let arr of smallStraights) {
    if (arr === uniqueNumbers) {
      updateRadioOption(3, 30);
      break;
    }
  }
}

rollDiceBtn.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (rolls === 3) {
    alert("You have made three rolls this round. Please select a score.");
  } else {
    rolls++;
    resetRadioOptions();
    rollDice();
    updateStats();
    getHighestDuplicates(diceValuesArr);
    detectFullHouse(diceValuesArr);
    checkForStraights(diceValuesArr);
  }
});

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Review Algorithmic Thinking by Building a Dice Game - Step 14

2

take a look at this article. It may help

3

Thank you! Took me a few more tries but I was able to figure it out. :smiley:

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