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 "-". For instance, 東京(Tokyo) is played as "toukyou", 優秀(excellent) is played as "yuushuu" and ユース(youth) is played as "yuusu". Scrabble3D has a different distribution, released earlier: The "-" for long vowels and the "V" tile are optional (not in the standard set). You can use the blank as a "V" tile. One board game (Romeo) has a different distribution, released earlier: In this version, note that C has no tile as it is used almost exclusively in the digraph CH. Klingon-language sets use these 100 tiles: The letter tiles may show Klingon symbols (pIqaD), their renderings in the English alphabet,