Why is every way to score 87 points just a way to score 86, 85, or 84 plus one more basket — and what does that make the three base cases?
Short drills on what this video just taught. Write the code, run the checks, and reveal the answer only if you are stuck.
The video walks the counts upward from the base cases: score_count(4) is 6, score_count(5) is 11, and score_count(6) is 20.
Using nothing but the recursive step and those three numbers, work out the count for a score of 8 and assign it to score8. No function and no recursion — arithmetic is enough. Careful: 8 sits two rungs above 6, so one of the numbers the final sum needs is not in the list yet.