Scrabble variants are formed. This variation is also used on "Scrabble Showdown". This game has the same size board and nearly the same scoring system as Scrabble. The major differences are the inclusion of twelve wild tiles marked with an asterisk that may represent one letter or any series of letters and special board squares that convert a regular letter tile into a wild tile (the tile in question is placed upside down on such a square). The nature of these changes shifts the emphasis of the game from playing short words to playing words of any length. For example, QUA*IST, could
Scrabble letter distributions "V", "W" and "Y" are absent because they are only used in loanwords. Digraphs can be formed with two tiles. , an independently produced Bicolano language variant of Scrabble, uses these 102 tiles. The games uses the Abakada alphabet; hence the foreign letters of the present Filipino alphabet, "C", "F", "J", "Q", "V", "X", "Z", and even "Ñ", are absent. None of these letters can be played with a blank. Also, "N" and "G" being played in place of "NG" is not allowed. Breton-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. "C", "Q", and "X" are absent because they are only