Why doesn't my code pass the tests?

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Why doesn’t my code pass the tests?
In the developer console, my code shows the results that should be in the tests.

Your code so far


var count = 0;

function cc(card) {
// Only change code below this line
if(card >= 2 && card <= 6) {
  count++;
} else if (card == 10 || card == 'J' || card == 'Q' ||
 card == 'K' || card == 'A') {
   count--;
 } else if (card >= 7 && card <= 9) {
   count = count;
 }

 if (count <= 0) {
   return count + 'Bet';
 } else {
   return count + 'Hold';
 }
// Only change code above this line
}

cc(2); cc(3); cc(7); cc('K'); cc('A');

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Counting Cards

Link to the challenge:

2

there is a space missing in the output

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3

Hi @gregomur, welcome to the forum.

I suggest re thinking your return statements:

 if (count <= 0) {
   return count + ' Bet';
 } else {
   return count + ' Hold';
 }

In the simple case of

2, 3, 4, 5, 6 should return 5 Bet

your function is returning:

5 Hold

Are you sure you should Bet only if count is less or equal 0?

Hope it helps :sparkles:

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4

Thank you, I wasn’t attentive. I changed the return values:

if (count <= 0) {
   return count + ' Bet';
 } else {
   return count + ' Hold';
 }

but the code also fails the tests.

5

look at @Marmiz post, it points out the other issue

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6

Thank you very much, now I understand what was wrong