"of points for each lettered tile is based on the letter's frequency in standard English; commonly used letters such as vowels are worth one point, while less common letters score higher, with Q and Z each worth 10 points. The game also has two blank tiles that are unmarked and carry no point value. The blank tiles can be used as substitutes for any letter; once laid on the board, however, the choice is fixed. Other language sets use different letter set distributions with different point values. Tiles are usually made of wood or plastic and are square and thick,"
"a ""Y"" it is worth 10 points, if a blank is used as a ""Z"" it is worth 15 points, and if a blank is used as a ""K"" it is worth 20 points. Each of those letters are so high in points, because they are used only in borrowed words. The score of 20 for a ""K"" is the highest known point value for any letter in any Scrabble score distribution worldwide. ""Y"" is absent in all sets except the paleographic extension of the first set because it is rare in Latin. ""K"" and ""Z"" are also absent in"
"Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries it is a trademark of Mattel. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in 29 languages; approximately 150 million sets"
"score in the Upper Section is at least 45. In the Lower Section are seven scoring categories: One Word, Two Words (at the same turn), Three Words (at the same turn), All Consonants, All Vowels (the consonant Y is considered a vowel in this game), Yahtzee Word (a seven-letter-word), and Chance. Of course, a word has to be a valid Scrabble word before it is scored, except in the All Consonants, All Vowels and Chance categories, although the pronoun ""I"" and the indefinite article ""a"" are also considered words. Jackpot Yahtzee, which started marketing in 1980, uses dice bearing symbols"
"Scrabble letter distributions Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter, the more points it is worth. Many languages use sets of 102 tiles, since the original distribution of one hundred tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles. In tournament play, while it is acceptable to pause the game to count the tiles remaining in the game, it is not acceptable to mention how many tiles are remaining"
"making them slightly smaller than the squares on the board. Only the rosewood tiles of the deluxe edition varies the width up to for different letters. Travelling versions of the game often have smaller tiles (e.g. ); sometimes they are magnetic to keep them in place. The capital letter is printed in black at the centre of the tile face and the letter's point value printed in a smaller font at the bottom right corner. S is one of the most valuable tiles in English-language Scrabble because it can be appended to many words to pluralize them (or in the"
"amount from the unused letters. ""Scribbage"" can be played with two or more players. A nearly identical game called ""Crossword Cubes"" from game maker Selchow and Righter (makers of ""Scrabble"") uses 14 cubes instead of 13. Despite its name, Scribbage has nothing in common with the card game cribbage. Scribbage is a spelling game similar to Scrabble. The parts are a set of 13 letter dice and a timer. Each face of the dice is stamped with a letter and a number with the exception of two which show Jokers. The number represents the letter's frequency in English. Each player"
"gives the information a serious player needs to advance to successful tournament play. There have been numerous documentaries made about the game, including: Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries"
"whoever buzzed in with the correct answer won £10 and the right to pick two letters from a keyboard. Like in America, the couple with a correct guess gets to choose two letters that are in the master puzzle (they'll call theirs the ""Main Phrase Puzzle""). They'll choose letters from a keyboard. The keyboard contained all 26 letters, plus a star, which is used to represent markings other than letters such as apostrophes or hyphens. Letters that are in the puzzle are highlighted on the keyboard, plus, one letter that is not in the puzzle, which is called a ""stinger"""
"placed on the descrambler board in its proper word, but in the order it was found, and the player is awarded points and a chance to unscramble the squares; consonants are worth 10 points, while vowels are worth 20. Once both players have found a letter during a round, they may ask for revealed letters to be placed in their proper positions for a cost of 10 or 20 points (consonants and vowels, respectively). All letters placed in this way are covered with a transparent yellow card, whether by spending points or finding a ""Placer"" (below). As the game is"
"quadruple letter scores spaced only three squares away from a double word score, it is not uncommon to see a single play score over one hundred points, even without a fifty-point bonus. Guarding against such plays becomes vital to strategy. However, due to the larger size of the board, this becomes increasingly difficult, especially late in the game. Super Scrabble Super Scrabble is a board game introduced in 2004 and a variant of ""Scrabble"". It is played on a 21×21 grid board instead of Scrabble's usual 15×15, and uses twice as many letter tiles. In North America ""Super Scrabble"" is"
"squares, 17 pale red ""double-word"" squares, of which one, the center square (H8), is marked with a star or other symbol; 12 dark blue ""triple-letter"" squares, and 24 pale blue ""double-letter"" squares. In 2008, Hasbro changed the colors of the premium squares to orange for TW, red for DW, blue for DL, and green for TL, but the original premium square color scheme is still preferred for ""Scrabble"" boards used in tournaments. In an English-language set, the game contains 100 tiles, 98 of which are marked with a letter and a point value ranging from 1 to 10. The number"
"the letters ""B"", ""E"", ""N"", ""O"", ""P"", ""S"", and ""U"". The letter ""C"" was reduced in value to 5 and the ""X"" was increased to 10: Circa 1961, the hyphen was dropped from the game's name, and the original Swedish distribution of the game had been restored. Sometime later, produced under BRIO's subsidiary, Joker, the number of ""T""s in the set were reduced by one and an 8-point ""Z"" tile was added. In 2002, under the ownership of Mattel and its brand name Scrabble, the Swedish language set tile values of the ""C"" and ""Z"" were changed, respectively, to 8"
"$25 Wal-Mart gift card and a 50-point bonus. An incorrect answer gave the opponent a chance at the points and gift card. The game is played in two rounds, each with one puzzle. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins $50 and first chance to play the ""Super Sqramble""; in the event of a tie (the most recent being Episode #392 on October 26, 2009), both players win the game and $50, and play Super Sqramble together. The day's winner has 60 seconds to unscramble a 9 or 10-letter word, two letters of which"
"and blank tiles cannot be used to represent these. Portuguese-language editions of Scrabble contain 120 tiles. While ""Ç"" is a separate tile, other diacritical marks are ignored. ""K"", ""W"", and ""Y"" are absent, since they are only present in loanwords in Portuguese, and were not even official letters until 2009. Romanian-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles. Some amendment applied in updated version. Previously, the B was worth 8, and the O was worth 1. The original (1982) distribution used the following 100 tiles: Diacritical marks are ignored, so for example ""Ă"" and ""Â"" are played as ""A"". Both"
"have been sold worldwide and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set. There are around 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world. The game is played by two to four players on a square board with a 15×15 grid of cells (individually known as ""squares""), each of which accommodates a single letter tile. In official club and tournament games, play is between two players or, occasionally, between two teams each of which collaborates on a single rack. The board is marked with ""premium"" squares, which multiply the number of points awarded: eight dark red ""triple-word"""
"be declared as only one letter and may not change. For example, with a rack of AEILNS? (? = blank), a player announcing that the blank was a C and announcing the words SANICLE and INLACES would receive twice the base score; their opponent could steal the word SCALENI and score the base amount for himself. Duplicate Scrabble is a form of organized tournament Scrabble popular in French-speaking countries, in which all players use the same tiles and words on their board and during each round, within a fixed time limit, have to find the highest scoring word. Players only"
"the question was now worth two points and correctly solving the question scored ten. The differences were that a correct answer to a scrambled word allowed a contestant to keep control and the solution to the question was not displayed when a question was first revealed; instead the letters were filled in as the round progressed (no points were scored for revealing them, however). The contestant with the highest score at the end of round two won the game and $500. The day's winner received an opportunity to increase their winnings to $5000 by correctly solving one final question. The"
"of which around 119,000 are up to eight letters in length. By contrast, TWL holds approximately two thirds as many words in total. CSW is therefore substantially larger than TWL and has a more international flavour, including a number of local or dialect words from around the world. International Scrabble ratings have been maintained since their inception by Bob Jackman in Sydney, Australia, using a variant of the Australian ratings calculation system. All tournaments played to WESPA rules are able to be rated within the system, and regular updates are posted on the WESPA website. The first rated tournament in"
"player takes the remaining cards and changes the word (for example, BLOW can become SLOW, and SLOW can become SLOT, etc.). The first player to lose all their cards wins. The best starting English word is WARE, providing for at least 23 common English words to be played next. A sample of the worst starting words are ALSO, ECHO, EXAM, GURU, IDOL, KEYS, OBEY, and TAXI. There are no common English words that can be played from those. Scrabble Slam! is a card game sold in two different editions. One edition includes 55 cards and can be played by 2-4"
"Scribbage Scribbage is a classic dice word game published in 1959 by the E.S. Lowe Company. 13 dice are rolled which have various letters on each side. Each letter is given a point value depending on its frequency in the English language. A timer is flipped and the player has to put the dice into words either left-to-right or up-and-down. The words must connect with each other as in crossword puzzles or ""Scrabble"". The player must stop at the end of the time and points are counted. The player adds up the points of the letters used and subtracts the"
"which is used to represent the ""Y"". Dutch and Belgian armed forces use the official NATO phonetic alphabet, ""Y"" is ""Yankee"" and ""IJ"" is spelled out ""India Juliet"". In crossword puzzles (except for Scrabblesee next paragraph), and in the game Lingo, ""IJ"" is considered one letter, filling one square, but the ""IJ"" and the ""Y"" are considered distinct. In other word games, the rules may vary. The Dutch version of Scrabble has a ""Y"" with a face value of eight. Some players used it to represent ""IJ"" or ""Y"". The recent Dutch version comes with an example game, which clearly"
"correspond to points. Each side of every die is printed like a Scrabble tile with a letter and small subscripted number on the lower right corner. One side of one die is marked with a diamond, which acts like the blank tile in Scrabble (can represent any letter, but will have no value). The corresponding scoresheet, like the parent game, has an Upper and Lower Section. In the Upper Section, points are scored and marked for two- to six-letter words, with each word determined by the point values of its letters. The player is awarded 35 points if the total"
"(given in the Rust Hills article) is as follows: A variant with 220 letters: The distribution of 180 letters for ""Scrabble Scoring Anagrams"" (according to a review on funagain.com): Anagrams Anagrams (also known as Pirate Scrabble, Anagram, Snatch, Word Making and Taking and Grabscrab) is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words. The game pieces consist of a set of tiles with letters on them. Tiles are turned over one by one, and players form words by combining unused tiles with existing words, their own or others'. The game has never been standardized and there"
"Flash"". In this round, the team is given five over-sized ""Scrabble Flash"" cubes, each with a different letter. The first team has thirty seconds to make as many words as possible; each word must contain at least three letters, and each valid word is worth one point for each letter used; there is at least one valid five-letter word. Both teams play the same set of letters; the team that is to go second is isolated while the first team plays. The team with the higher score wins a prize and two ""Bonus Scrabble Tiles."" Before the round begins, a"
"at any time. Several online tools exist for counting tiles during friendly play. Diacritical marks (such as ""é"" in words borrowed from French) are ignored. English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution: The total number of points is 187. When Alfred Butts invented the game, he initially experimented with different distributions of letters. A popular story claims that Butts created an elaborate chart by studying the front page of ""The New York Times"" to create his final choice of letter distributions. In 2004, Super Scrabble was launched. For international distribution outside the United States and"
"choose to swap tiles with the pool of currently unused tiles or pass their turn. Players can form words either vertically or horizontally on the board. The player's aim is to score as many points as possible. A letter placed on a DL or TL square doubles or triples the value of that letter on all words formed using that square. Similarly, the DW and TW squares double and triple the value of the new word(s) using that square. If a player uses all seven tiles on a single play (known as a bingo in ""Scrabble""), 35 bonus points are"
"the most popular mobile game in the United States. A sequel to the game, ""Words with Friends 2"", came out in September 2017. The rules of the game are mostly the same as those of two-player ""Scrabble"", with a few differences such as the arrangement of premium squares and the distribution and point values of some of the letters (see Scrabble letter distributions and point values). Players are given seven randomly chosen letter tiles, which are replenished until all 104 tiles have been used. Players take turns forming words on the board or, instead of playing a word, may also"
"teams of 2, 3, or 4 race to play legal Scrabble words as quickly as possible. Scoring does not matter; all that matters is how quickly words are played. This can be a co-operative game where all players are simply trying to complete the game as fast as possible. A new variant on Scrabble introduced by Mattel on April 6, 2010. This game has the same rules and tiles as Scrabble, but the board is larger (21x21 vs. 15x15 in the original). With the larger board there are more premium squares, going up to quadruple letter and quadruple word scores."
"the lowest-scored one, chooses which kind of problem they want to play with : numbers or letters. This round was introduced in 2016 along with a new set for the show. Only the winning contestant plays this round. S/he has two minutes to find the longest word from 9 different 10-letter selection as possible. Each correct answer is worth € 100. The longest word is either 7, 8, 9 or 10 letters long and the maximum word length is indicated in each selection. The contestant may pass and move on to the next selection, and the selections are cycled until"
"a board square) Some other differences from Scrabble are: a rack is six tiles instead of seven; the center square is not a ""double word square""; and, playing all six tiles in your rack at once scores a 10-point bonus instead of 50. Numble Numble is a 1968 board game published by Selchow and Righter which is very similar to Scrabble. Instead of forming words, players form sequences adhering to certain arithmetic and numerical constraints. Each tile in Numble has a single digit, 0 through 9, except for two blanks. A ""word"" in Numble is a string of digits in"
"receive points for their own words, and at the end, when there are no more consonants or no more vowels, the player with the most points wins the game. This form of Scrabble can often result in many players participating simultaneously; the official record for participation in France, where Duplicate Scrabble is the preferred form of the game, is 1485 at the 1998 tournament in Vichy. It is also the predominant format used in the French World Scrabble Championships. So called because in it the blank tiles are recycled. If a blank tile is played to represent a particular letter,"
"a short vowel, the way for example P is doubled to indicate the difference between 'super' and 'supper'. However, that is changing with newly coined words, such as 'divvy up' and 'skivvies'. Like J, K, Q, X, and Z, V is not used very frequently in English. It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 1.03% in words. V is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the Australian version of the game of Scrabble. C also cannot be used in the American version."