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 the name Escarbar (a Spanish word for "Scrabble") use these 108 tiles: An unofficial practice in some variants of Spanish Scrabble is the permit of words with QU to be played with the Q and with or without the following U. This variant practice eliminates the Q-without-U difficulty that may otherwise occur. Swedish-language Scrabble sets (until 1990 sold in Sweden as "Alfapet", but that became a different game) use these 100 tiles: "Å", "Ä" and "Ö" have separate tiles; other diacritics like that on "É" are ignored (except "Ü"). "Q" and "W", found only in loanwords, are absent but can