seven wonders scorer with wild

def score(a, b, c):
	"""
    Returns the score given the amounts of each of the symbols.  Doesn't care which is which.
    """
	return min(a, b, c) * 7 + a ** 2 + b ** 2 + c ** 2

print "Welcome to the Science Points Calculator!"

# we don't care which symbol is which, so we just need three variables.
# easiest way to do that is with a List type, declared like this:
scores = [0, 0, 0]
# now the three variables can be referred to with scores[0], scores[1] and scores[2]

# let's call int() right on the input so it's stuffed away as an int.
scores[0] = int(input("How many cogs do you have?"))
scores[1] = int(input("How many tablets do you have?"))
scores[2] = int(input("How many compasses do you have?"))
wild = int(input("How many wild symbols do you have?"))

# we're not going to give the responsibility of assigning wild symbols to the score() function.
# we're going to do it ourselves.
# we want them sorted from lowest to highest so we can always identify the lowest value and highest value.
# every List is actually an *object* and you can call methods on the object like this: object.method().
# in this case the object is called 'scores' (our List) and the method is 'sort'.
scores.sort()

while wild > 0:
    # let's see what scores higher: adding it to the lowest number, or adding it to the highest number.
    if score(scores[0] + 1, scores[1], scores[2]) > score(scores[0], scores[1], scores[2] + 1):
        scores[0] += 1
    else:
        scores[2] += 1
    # we may have to re-sort because we may have gone from 3, 3, 3 to 4, 3, 3.
    scores.sort()
    # decrement the number of wild symbols left to apply.
    wild -= 1

# we need to pass the individual scores into our score function.
print "Congratulations! Your science score is a whopping " + str(score(scores[0], scores[1], scores[2])) + " points!"

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