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 borrowed words. Marketed as L33t Tiles by the now defunct Wiremelon, LLC, editions of an English-L33tspeak variant of Scrabble contain 103 letter tiles in the following distribution: Lithuanian-language sets (known as KrisKros Klasik) use these 104 tiles: The letters "Q", "W" and "X" are absent, because they are not used in Lithuanian. Arguably "F" and "H" do not exist in Lithuanian either, but they are included as they are sometimes used for borrowed words. Lojban-language sets use these 160 tiles: The combination XO is absent as it is only used in 7 words ("binxo", "ganxo", "jerxo", "sirxo", "xogji", "xotli", and