diff --git a/src/adagrams.js b/src/adagrams.js
index 7ec5afc7..fbf67a75 100644
--- a/src/adagrams.js
+++ b/src/adagrams.js
@@ -1,15 +1,161 @@
+//Function: Introduce letter pool and score chart for use
+const letterPool = {
+  A: 9,
+  B: 2,
+  C: 2,
+  D: 4,
+  E: 12,
+  F: 2,
+  G: 3,
+  H: 2,
+  I: 9,
+  J: 1,
+  K: 1,
+  L: 4,
+  M: 2,
+  N: 6,
+  O: 8,
+  P: 2,
+  Q: 1,
+  R: 6,
+  S: 4,
+  T: 6,
+  U: 4,
+  V: 2,
+  W: 2,
+  X: 1,
+  Y: 2,
+  Z: 1,
+}; 
+
+const scoreChart = {
+  A: 1,
+  B: 3,
+  C: 3,
+  D: 2,
+  E: 1,
+  F: 4,
+  G: 2,
+  H: 4,
+  I: 1,
+  J: 8,
+  K: 5,
+  L: 1,
+  M: 3,
+  N: 1,
+  O: 1,
+  P: 3,
+  Q: 10,
+  R: 1,
+  S: 1,
+  T: 1,
+  U: 1,
+  V: 4,
+  W: 4,
+  X: 8,
+  Y: 4,
+  Z: 10,
+}; 
+
+
 export const drawLetters = () => {
   // Implement this method for wave 1
+  let availableLetters = [];
+  let hand = [];
+
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(letterPool)) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < value; i++) {
+      //add elements with push 
+      availableLetters.push(key); 
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+    let letter = availableLetters[Math.floor(Math.random() * availableLetters.length)];
+    hand.push(letter);
+    let index = availableLetters.indexOf(letter); 
+    availableLetters.splice(index, 1);
+  }
+  return hand; 
 };
 
+
 export const usesAvailableLetters = (input, lettersInHand) => {
-  // Implement this method for wave 2
+  // wave 2 
+  // Has two parameters:
+//   `input`, the first parameter, describes some input word, and is a string
+//   - `lettersInHand`, the second parameter, describes an array of drawn letters in a hand. You can expect this to be an array of ten strings, with each string representing a letter
+// - Returns either `true` or `false`
+// - Returns `true` if every letter in the `input` word is available (in the right quantities) in the `lettersInHand`
+// - Returns `false` if not; if there is a letter in `input` that is not present in the `lettersInHand` or has too much of compared to the `lettersInHand`
+
+lettersInHand = [...lettersInHand];
+for (const letter of input) {
+    if(lettersInHand.includes(letter)) {
+      let indexLettersInHand = lettersInHand.indexOf(letter);
+      lettersInHand.splice(indexLettersInHand, 1);
+    } else {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+  return true; 
+// const countLettersInHand = (lettersInHand) =>{
+//   //go through loop and account for each word in letter
+//   for(let i = 0 ; i < lettersInHand.length; ++i) {
+//       let wordCounter = 0;
+//       if 
+//   };
+//   //use a counter to keep track of letter frequency 
+// };
 };
 
+
+
+
 export const scoreWord = (word) => {
-  // Implement this method for wave 3
+  // wave 3
+  let score = 0;
+  for (let letter of word) {
+    score += scoreChart[letter.toUpperCase()];
+  }
+  //TODO: If the length of the word is > 7 + additional 8 points
+  if (word.length >= 7) {
+    score += 8; 
+  }
+  return score;
 };
 
 export const highestScoreFrom = (words) => {
-  // Implement this method for wave 4
-};
+  //wave 4
+  let wordsAndScores = {};
+
+  //loop
+  for (const word of words) {
+    const score = scoreWord(word);
+    wordsAndScores[word] = score;
+  };
+
+  const winningWordAndScore = {
+    word: Object.keys(wordsAndScores)[0],
+    score: Object.values(wordsAndScores)[0]
+  };
+
+  for (const[key, value] of Object.entries(wordsAndScores)) {
+    //create conditional
+    if (value > winningWordAndScore['score']) {
+      winningWordAndScore['word'] = key;
+      winningWordAndScore ['score'] = value;
+    };
+
+    if (value === winningWordAndScore['score'] && winningWordAndScore['word'].length < 10) {
+      if(key.length === 10) {
+        winningWordAndScore['word'] = key;
+        winningWordAndScore['score'] = value;
+      } else if (key.length < winningWordAndScore['word'].length) {
+        winningWordAndScore['word'] = key;
+        winningWordAndScore['score'] = value;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return winningWordAndScore; 
+};
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diff --git a/test/adagrams.test.js b/test/adagrams.test.js
index 1a0dc94e..122fb322 100644
--- a/test/adagrams.test.js
+++ b/test/adagrams.test.js
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe("Adagrams", () => {
 
   describe("usesAvailableLetters", () => {
     it("returns true if the submitted letters are valid against the drawn letters", () => {
-      const drawn = ["D", "O", "G", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X"];
+      const drawn = ["O", "D","G", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X"];
       const word = "DOG";
 
       const isValid = usesAvailableLetters(word, drawn);
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ describe("Adagrams", () => {
     });
 
     it("returns a score of 0 if given an empty input", () => {
-      throw "Complete test";
+      expectScores ({
+        "" : 0,
+      }); 
     });
 
     it("adds an extra 8 points if word is 7 or more characters long", () => {
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ describe("Adagrams", () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe.skip("highestScoreFrom", () => {
+  describe("highestScoreFrom", () => {
     it("returns a hash that contains the word and score of best word in an array", () => {
       const words = ["X", "XX", "XXX", "XXXX"];
       const correct = { word: "XXXX", score: scoreWord("XXXX") };
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ describe("Adagrams", () => {
       const words = ["XXX", "XXXX", "X", "XX"];
       const correct = { word: "XXXX", score: scoreWord("XXXX") };
 
-      throw "Complete test by adding an assertion";
+      expect(highestScoreFrom(words)).toEqual(correct);
     });
 
     describe("in case of tied score", () => {