Practice Problem - Bridge

Overview

• Bridge is a card game played by 2 pairs of people, or 4 people.
• Each player recieves 13 cards.
• The pairs who are partners can only communicate through verbal bids.
• These bids tell both partners the strength of the hand of cards they have.
• The point is to communicate until it is found that both partners are strong in one suit.
• Instead of saying ‘I have at least 5 hearts and at least 13 points.”, a partner would bid ‘One heart’
• Points are scored by 4 points for each ace, 3 for each king, 2 for each queen and 1 for each jack.
• The suits are ranked from highest to lowest as Spades(S), Hearts(H), Diamonds(D), and Clubs(C).

Bidding rules:

• First bidder must have at least 13 points. They bid one of the suit with the highest number of cards that is at least 5 for S and H and 3 for D and C.
• If there is a tie in the number of cards, they bid the one with the highest suit
• If the player does not have 13, they bid PASS

Input

• Five lines of input
• Each line has four strings separated by a comma and a space
• Each string is the cards the player has for each suit in the order S, H, D, and C
• The string contains the characters 'A' (ace), 'K' (king), 'Q' (queen),'J' (jack), or 'x' (any other card), which represents the cards of that suit.

Output

• For each line, print the number of points the player has as well as their bid, separated by a comma and a space
• Both must be correct to score one point for the line

Sample Inputs

AKxx, Qxx, AJxxx, J
AKxxx, Qxx, AJxx, J
Axx, Qxx, Axxx, Jxx
Axxx, Qxx, Jxxx, Jx
KQxxx, AKxxx, J, xx

Sample Outputs

15, 1D
15, 1S
11, PASS
8, PASS
13, 1S

Test Input

AKxx, xxx, xxx, AKx
AKxx, AKxxx, x, AKx
KJxx, Kxxx, QJ, QJx
AKxxx, Qxxxx, xx, A
AKxx, xxx, xxx, Axx

Test Output

15, 1D
15, 1S
11, PASS
8, PASS
13, 1S

Bridge Program With Errors

def AddNumbers(cards)
  value = {'A': 4, 'K': 3, 'Q': 2, 'J': 1}
  points = 0
  for card in cards:
    if card in ['A', 'K', 'Q', 'J']:
      points + value[card]
  return points

def FindBid(cards):
  suits = cards().split(', ')
  max_suit = [0, None]
  number_of_cards = {0 : 5, 1 : 5, 2 : 3, 3 : 3}
  specific_suit = {0 :'S', 1 :'H', 2 :'D', 3 : C}
  for suit in range(len((suits))):
    if len(suits[suit]) > number_of_cards[suit]:
      if len(suits[suit]) > max_suit[0]:
        max_suit = [len(suits[suit]), specific_suit[suit]]
  return '1' + max_suit[1]

for i in range():
  cards = input("Enter cards: ")
  points = AddNumbers(cards)
  bid = FindBid(cards) 
  if points < 13
    print(str(points) + ', PASS')
  else:
    print(str(points + ', ' + bid)

Try to find the errors in this code. There are more than 5.

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