"require scientific notation, depending on the board. Points are calculated automatically and displayed next to definitions of words as they are placed. Anadrome has a tile-earning mechanic and board editor, allowing users to create publicly available boards for Scrabble, Words with Friends, and their own custom designs, making it a superset of crossword-style games. On the game show ""Scrabble Showdown"", two teams play various games in order to win prizes including a vacation to anywhere in the world. Gosum is similar to Numble. Users place sequences of numbers and equations, using the four main arithmetic operators (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication)"
"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"
"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"
"""H"" tile in place of the ""CH"" tile, two ""L"" tiles for the ""LL"" tile, or two ""R"" tiles for the ""RR"" tile is also not allowed in Spanish Scrabble (see rules in Spanish provided by the FISE). Spanish-language sets sold within North America (known as ""Scrabble – Edición en Español"") use - including ""K"" and ""W"" but without ""CH"" - these 103 tiles: Stress accents are still disregarded. Arguably the ""K"" and ""W"" tiles should not be included in this Scrabble set, but they are anyway, so that loanwords can be played. Spanish-language sets sold within Latin America under"
"in the digraph ""CH"", and ""U"" in ""OU"" and ""UI"". This version is made for educational purposes and is not an official edition by Mattel. There is no official Hawaiian-language edition of Scrabble, but one suggested fan version made for educational purposes contains these 100 tiles: ""B"", ""C"", ""D"", ""F"", ""G"", ""J"", ""Q"", ""R"", ""S"", ""T"", ""V"", ""X"", ""Y"", and ""Z"" have no tiles as they are not used in Hawaiian. For the sake of the geocache this is connected to, the distribution had to be modified a bit. For example, there should be 30 A's and 11 K's. The"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"replaced by the digraph of the letter without the dot followed by H. Shortly after, the Scrabble3D distribution underwent a major revision (still has 100 tiles): Note that ""H"" is not in this set because it is only used at the beginning of the words starting with vowels, which is against the rules there. Note: This set uses the old orthography. In the new orthography, the dotted letters are replaced by the digraph of the letter without the dot followed by H. Italian-language Scrabble (originally sold in Italy as ""Scarabeo"", but that became a different game) applied a special rule"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"added - this contrasts with the 50 bonus points in Scrabble. The different arrangement of premium squares can lead to scoring situations that would be rare or impossible in a typical Scrabble game. For example, it is possible to place a new word that simultaneously covers a triple letter score (TL) and a triple word score (TW), or a new word that covers a double word score (DW) and a triple word score (TW), which would be near impossible or impossible in a Scrabble game. The game ends when a player plays every tile in his or her rack, and"
"word LAVA would score . The hierarchy of letters is similar to that of Scrabble; Q and Z are the highest-scoring tiles (each 10) followed by X and J (each 8) and so on, the most notable variance is that here L is worth five as opposed to just one in Scrabble. The player starts with two minutes to find as many words as he can; if he manages to use Q, Z, X, or J in any word he is awarded a further 10 seconds. After each successful entry the letters used are discarded with the matrix replacing those"
"no premium squares (originally 64 tiles on an 8×8 board). It has a Qu tile instead of Q and a different tile distribution than Scrabble. Words can be formed as in Scrabble as well as by playing on top of previously formed words. When playing over a word, at least one tile from the original word must be incorporated into the new word. All tiles, with the exception of the Qu tile in certain circumstances, are worth the same, with additional points scored for higher stacks of letters. Stacks can't go higher than five tiles and all words that are"
"Scrabble® brand crossword game. An alternative by Scrabble3D has this distribution (no combinations): Irish-language sets use these 100 tiles: ""J"", ""K"", ""Q"", ""V"", ""W"", ""X"", ""Y"", and ""Z"" are absent since they are rarely used in the Irish language. An alternate set, proposed by Scrabble3D along with the official set, was proposed to have these 100 tiles: Note that ""H"" is not in this set because it is only used at the beginning of the words starting with vowels, which is against the rules there. Note: This set uses the old orthography. In the new orthography, the dotted letters are"
"these 130 tiles. It was An unofficial Japanese Hiragana Scrabble set uses these 100 tiles: The obsolete letters ゐ and ゑ, the letter を now exclusively used as a grammatical particle, and the lengthener ー have no tiles. Words are played in ""dictionary format"": This version was created by a student from Japan, and is not in wide circulation. A more popular set by Scrabble3D uses these 206 tiles: The obsolete letters ""ぇ"", ""ゐ"", ""ゑ"", ""ゎ"", ""ぃ"", ""ぁ"", ""ぅ"", and ""ぉ"", along with the marks ""ー"", ""゛"", and "" ゜"", have no tiles (with the first three letters and the"
"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,"
"have been locked. Players' scores are based on the polyp tiles eaten by the parrotfish. Each tile is worth between 1 and 5 points, depending on where the tile is in the dominance hierarchy. For example, suppose the hierarchy at the end of the game is the following: In this case, grey tiles are worth five points (one point, plus one point for each of four dominated colors). Pink, orange, and white are each worth three points (one point, plus one point for each of two dominated colors). Yellow tiles, which do not dominate any other colors, are worth one"
"the case: for example, TRAINER(S) played at 1A (with the T on the TWS) without forming additional words scores formula_1 points. These facts are according to the SOWPODS lexicon as amended in 2006. Bingo (Scrabble) Bingo is a slang term used in Scrabble for a play using all seven of the player's tiles. A player who does this receives 50 points in addition to what the word would normally score. Mattel, the game's manufacturer in the United Kingdom, uses the term bonus to describe such a word. In French, it is called a ""scrabble"". Bingos are an important part of"
"(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"
"set of 16 letter tiles are placed on the board. A randomizer then causes tiles to light up. Each team is allowed to stop the randomizer; a team starts the final round with the regulation value of the tiles that they stop the randomizer on; the number of tiles that the randomizer lights up is the number of ""Bonus Scrabble Tiles"" that the team had earned from the three previous rounds. This becomes their ""head start"" score before playing ""Scrabble Lightning"". The game is played on a regulation Scrabble board with only the double and triple-word score spaces (the double"
"that when a player exchanges tiles on his turn, he could request opponent to pass his turn. Both players have one chance each for one game. The sets consist of these 120 tiles: Diacritic marks are ignored. The letters ""J"", ""K"", ""W"", ""X"", and ""Y"" are absent since these letters do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, although they are sometimes used in loanwords. Another set uses these 120 tiles: ""Scarabeo"" is an Italian variant of Scrabble that is much more popular in its native country than the original game. It is played with a 17×17 board, and uses"
"as these digraphs and trigraphs are very rare in Gwich'in. ""C"" is not included, as it is only used in the digraph ""CH"". ""P"", ""Q"", and ""X"" are absent because these letters are not used in Gwich'in. Arguably B, F, and M are not used in Gwich'in either, but they are included as these letters are used for borrowed words. Haitian Creole-language editions of Scrabble contain these 100 tiles: ""X"" has no tile as it is only used in loanwords in Haitian Creole. ""Q"" has no tile as it is not used in Haitian Creole, while ""C"" is only used"
"used in loanwords or, in the case of ""C"", the digraphs ""CH"" and ""C'H"". However, these letters can be played with a blank. Diacritical marks are ignored. Bulgarian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, use the following 102 tiles: Catalan-language editions use these 100 tiles. Accents and diaereses are ignored; for example, ""À"" is played as ""A"". Nevertheless, there are special tiles for the ""C"" with cedilla ""Ç"" (""ce trencada""), the ligature ""L·L"" representing the geminated ell (""ela geminada""), as well as the digraph ""NY"". Playing an ""N"" tile followed by a blank tile to form the digraph ""NY"" is"
"it is used in some borrowed words. Zhuyin Chinese-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles. The letter ㄙ (""S)"" has no tile as it is almost exclusively used in the letter ㄕ (SH) in this edition. The letters ㄘ (""C)"", ㄔ (""CH""), ㄈ (""F)"", ㄎ (""K)"", and ㄆ (""P)"" are used in Zhuyin, but so infrequently that they have no tiles. 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,"
"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"
"it was only used in loanwords. This distribution had a ""CH"" tile for the digraphic letter. Dakelh-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. The letters ""F"" and ""R"" are used in Dakelh, but only in loanwords and are very infrequent. ""P"", ""Q"", ""V"", and ""X"" are also absent because these letters are not used in Dakelh. Danish-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. This distribution lacks ""Q"" and ""W"", which are rare in the Danish language. Dutch-language editions consist of the following 102 tiles: Before March 1998, there was a difference between the Dutch and the Flemish version: the Dutch"
"A word may include a single wild tile, which can represent any letter. The sale price of a word is determined exactly as is the purchase price of a set of letters: as the square of the pips showing in the word. The validity of words is judged based on any standard mutually agreed to by the players ahead of time. After all players have had the opportunity to sell words, no player may hold more than eight letter tiles in hand. Wild tiles do not count against this limit. Players must either sell words or discard tiles to adhere"
"played on a 13 x13 board. Each player has different coloured tiles. The rack is common and always contains 7 tiles. All tiles have the same value, one point. Points are scored for how many tiles are currently your own colour. The special squares are pink and orange. A word with a tile on a pink square clears the board. When this happens a bonus point is received for each tile you placed on an orange square on that board. Literaxx is the English version of ""Literaki"", a popular online Polish variant. Tiles are worth 1, 2, 3 or 5"
"corners of the board. Other than the differences in the board and the number of tiles, gameplay is similar to ""Scrabble"". Each player has seven tiles in their rack as normal, scoring is the same, and the same word lists are used. However, the differences are enough to upset normal ""Scrabble"" strategies. For example, the fifty points earned from a bingo (using all seven tiles) is not nearly as significant when compared to the high final scores. For a two-player game, scores over eight hundred points are not uncommon. Tournament-level ""Scrabble"" games are usually limited to two players. Many tournament"
"is called ԲԱՌ ԽԱՂ (""bar khagh"", meaning ""words game"") and is not an official edition by Mattel. Notice that this distribution lacks ""և"", another Armenian letter, because: However, it can be formed as a ligature of ե/Ե and ւ/Ւ. Bambara-language Scrabble sets use these 106 tiles: The uncommon digraphic letters ""sh"" (sometimes represented with the IPA symbol ʃ; a regional variant of s) and ""kh"" (only used in loanwords) are absent as they are now considered obsolete. Basque-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. Called Euskarbel, this is not an official edition by Mattel. Diacritical marks are ignored. ""C"", ""Q"","