Game mechanics in two distinct ways: Examples of tile mechanics include: "Scrabble", in which tiles are letters and players lay them down to form words and score points; and "Tikal", in which players lay tiles representing newly explored areas of jungle, through which archaeologists (represented by tokens) must move to score game points. Worker placement is a game mechanism where players allocate a limited number of tokens ("workers") to multiple stations that provide various defined actions. The worker placement mechanism originates with board games. Stewart Woods identifies "Keydom" (1998; later remade and updated as "Aladdin's Dragons") as the first game to implement
Scrabble letter distributions 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