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 "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