./ScrabblePlayer.java:27; error: missing return statement -- why do I keep getting this?

Question

When I enter my method for this challenge, I keep getting this error. I've fiddled with various approaches, but I can't figure out why I keep getting this error? I do have a return in my method but it says I don't!

Here is the full error I receive: ./ScrabblePlayer.java:27: error: missing return statement } ^ 1 error

ScrabblePlayer.java

public class ScrabblePlayer {
  private String mHand;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    mHand = "";
  }

  public String getHand() {
   return mHand;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // Adds the tile to the hand of the player
    mHand += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
   return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
  }

  public int getTileCount() {
    int counter = 0;
    for (char letter: mHand.toCharArray()) {
      counter++;
      return counter;
    }
  }
}

Answer 1 · 2016-04-01T17:59:14Z

April 1, 2016 5:59pm

Your method "getTileCount" has to have a char parameter. So you can check how many times that paremeter that you have received appears in the mHand. You can do it like this:

  public int getTileCount(char tile) {
    int counter = 0;
    for (char letter: mHand.toCharArray()) {
      if (letter == tile) {
      counter++;
      }
    }
    return counter;
  }

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./ScrabblePlayer.java:27; error: missing return statement -- why do I keep getting this?

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