Q and W are absent because they are only used in loanwords, though Q and W can be played with a blank.
5 wild (asterisk) tiles scoring 0 points. It includes the following 200 tiles, with the Q tile replaced with the QU digraph, because Q in Catalan is never without a U after it, and with two of the special tiles, Ç and L There is a Catalan Scrabble clone which uses the same 21x21 board as Super Scrabble. While Ç is a separate tile, other diacritic marks are ignored. Official rules treat the Q tile as just one letter, but usually Catalan players use the Q tile like the QU digraph and all Catalan Scrabble Clubs use this de facto rule. Blanks cannot be used to represent K, W, or Y, which means that playing an N tile followed by a blank tile to form the digraph NY is not allowed. K, W, and Y are absent because they are only used in loanwords or, for Y, the digraph NY. L representing the geminated L ( ela geminada), as well as the digraph NY. Nevertheless, there are special tiles for the C with cedilla Ç ( ce trencada), the ligature L The pattern of using the isolated forms in composing words is also found in Arabic crosswords and in the Scrabble3D Persian Scrabble set and is one of the rare situations when Arabic letters are not connected to each other.Ĭatalan-language editions use these 100 tiles: In some sets, as found in some Arabic-based alphabets that are not the standard modern Arabic, a dotless yeh ( alif maqsura) may be used ى, and for the letter he the final form ھ (heh doachashmee) may appear, as it is in some Arabic-based alphabets, as in Urdu, the isolated form of the letter. 4 points: ﺹ ×3, ﺽ ×3, ﻉ ×3, ﻙ ×3, ﻁ ×2,Īlthough Arabic letters have up to four forms, Scrabble tiles use the isolated form. Īrabic Arabic letter distributionĪrabic-language editions use the following 100 tiles: The infrequent letters X and Z may still be represented by the use of a blank, yet the letters C and Q, not used in the Afrikaans language but only in a few loanwords, may not be. 1 point: E ×15, A ×9, I ×8, N ×7, O ×6, S ×6, T ×6, R ×5, L ×4, U ×2Ībsent in both the original and standard set of Afrikaans are the letters C, Q, X, and Z. This language set of the game had the following 100 tiles: Alongside the English language version of Scrabble the company also produced the first Afrikaans language version of the game under the name Krabbel, an Afrikaans translation of "Scrabble". 
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1 point: E ×16, A ×9, I ×8, N ×8, D ×6, O ×6, R ×6, S ×6, T ×6Ĭirca 1953, the Production and Marketing Company had provided license to the private company Leon Toys of Johannesburg, South Africa in the manufacture and production of Scrabble.The Afrikaans editions use these 102 tiles: Super Scrabble contains more letters that are overlined and fewer letters that are underlined than would be obtained by combining two standard English sets.Īfrikaans Afrikaans letter distribution For international distribution outside the United States and Canada, and under license from Mattel, the game is manufactured by Leisure Tends' Tinderbox Games and, for distribution within the United States and Canada, under license from Hasbro, the game is manufactured by Winning Moves. 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. When Alfred Butts invented the game, he initially experimented with different distributions of letters.
Diacritical marks (such as "é" in words borrowed from French) are ignored. (Number of tiles across, point values down)Įnglish-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution: Scrabble editions listed in this section are officially licensed by Hasbro (for North America) or Mattel (for the rest of the world).Įnglish English letter distribution
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