The Yahtzee Engine

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Domain

Python

Difficulty

hard

Seniority

L4

Problem

Given 5 dice, return a dict with scores for all Yahtzee categories: 'ones' through 'sixes' (sum of matching dice), 'three_of_a_kind' (sum of all if >=3 match else 0), 'four_of_a_kind', 'full_house' (25 if 3+2 pattern), 'small_straight' (30 if 4 consecutive), 'large_straight' (40 if 5 consecutive), 'yahtzee' (50 if all 5 match), 'chance' (sum of all).

Summary

Five dice. Six faces. Score it.

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