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 are virtually absent in Finnish. Arguably "B", "C", "F", and "G" (outside the digraph "NG") do not exist in Finnish either, but they are included as they are used for borrowed words, and "F" in some western dialects. A variant called Alfapet (originally the name of Swedish Scrabble), contains 108 tiles: French-language editions of Scrabble contain these 102 tiles: Diacritical marks are ignored. Galician-language sets use these 100 tiles: Stress accents are disregarded. This is called Letrad@s.GZ (originally Scrabble.GZ), and is not an official edition by Mattel. Arguably "J", "K", "W", and "Y" do not exist in Galician, but they