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 2016, Tinderbox games under license from Mattel produced Icelandic-language sets using these 104 tiles: Earlier in 2016, to address a realized need for an improved letter ratio for the Icelandic-language, sets under the name Krafla, independent of the Scrabble brand, were produced and made available. For that year, this version was the version sanctioned by Iceland's Scrabble clubs for their tournaments. Krafla has the following 100 tiles: Before 2016, Icelandic-language sets used these 104 tiles: Originally, there was a 105-tile distribution with slightly different point values than the distribution before 2016 (and with 7 E's instead of 6): The letters