Super Scrabble corners of the board. Other than the differences in the board and the number of tiles, gameplay is similar to "Scrabble". Each player has seven tiles in their rack as normal, scoring is the same, and the same word lists are used. However, the differences are enough to upset normal "Scrabble" strategies. For example, the fifty points earned from a bingo (using all seven tiles) is not nearly as significant when compared to the high final scores. For a two-player game, scores over eight hundred points are not uncommon. Tournament-level "Scrabble" games are usually limited to two players. Many tournament
Scrabble (game show) configuration as the premium squares on the original Scrabble board, awarded money as shown in the sections below. Whenever two new contestants played this round, a backstage coin toss determined who would start the first word. Following the 1986 episode re-structuring, if a champion was playing the first Crossword, it was started by the challenger. Each successive word was started by the trailing contestant, or by the one who did not start the previous word if the score was tied. In the first week of the show, a cumulative money pot was used in the Crossword round. Each letter placed