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 is called ԲԱՌ ԽԱՂ ("bar khagh", meaning "words game") and is not an official edition by Mattel. Notice that this distribution lacks "և", another Armenian letter, because: However, it can be formed as a ligature of ե/Ե and ւ/Ւ. Bambara-language Scrabble sets use these 106 tiles: The uncommon digraphic letters "sh" (sometimes represented with the IPA symbol ʃ; a regional variant of s) and "kh" (only used in loanwords) are absent as they are now considered obsolete. Basque-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. Called Euskarbel, this is not an official edition by Mattel. Diacritical marks are ignored. "C", "Q",