Pontoon is a card game often played at casinos. The purpose of the game is to beat the house by having a number of points greater than the house but not above 21.

• The game is played with a standard 52-card deck
• The are 4 suits in the deck: clubs ♣, diamonds ♦, hearts ♥ and spades ♠
• The values of the cards are: Ace, numbers 2 to 10, Jack, Queen, King

Implementation notes:

• Write the functions below so that they can be tested independently
• Write unit tests for each of the functions

1. CREATE THE DECK

   • Write a function which creates a deck of 52 cards by combining suits and values
   • Represent the deck as an array
   • Encode each card as a string like “{value}{suit}”. For example:
     • “AS”: Ace of Spades
     • “2H”: 2 of Hearts
     • “KC”: King of Clubs
     • “TD”: Ten of Diamonds (note the use of “T” for Ten to avoid using a 2-digit number)

2. SHUFFLE THE DECK

   • Write a function which shuffles the deck
   • It accepts the deck as input and returns a shuffled deck with cards in random order

3. DEAL A HAND OF CARDS

   • Write a function which deals N cards
   • It should take as input:
     • The deck
     • A positive integer number N (N <= 52)
   • It should return an array of N number of cards (called a “hand”) from the top of the deck
   • It should mutate the deck by removing those cards from the deck

4. COMPUTE THE POINTS

   • Write a function which computes the points in a hand
   • The points of the cards are:
     • 10 for face cards (Jack, Queen, King)
     • The numeric value for the numeric cards 2 through 10
   • For aces
     • If the current value of the hand is <= 10, then the Ace has value 11
     • Otherwise, the Ace has value 1
   • Examples:
     • [“AC”, “2S”] = 13
     • [“5D”, “TH”] = 15
     • [“AH”, “AS”] = 12

5. 🏆[bonus] PLAY PONTOON

   • Write a function which deals a 2-card hand to “player 1” and another to “player 2” and determines the winner
   • Deal the 2 hands from the same shuffled deck, using the functions created previously
   • Compute the points in each hand
   • The winner is the player with the highest number of points
   • Return a string “p1” in case player 1 wins, “p2” in case player 2 wins
   • In case of a tie, the result is called “push” and the function should return this value