Scrabble have been sold worldwide and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set. There are around 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world. The game is played by two to four players on a square board with a 15×15 grid of cells (individually known as "squares"), each of which accommodates a single letter tile. In official club and tournament games, play is between two players or, occasionally, between two teams each of which collaborates on a single rack. The board is marked with "premium" squares, which multiply the number of points awarded: eight dark red "triple-word"
Scrabble letter distributions distributions lack "K", "Q", "W" and "Y", since they are only used in foreign words. You can still use a blank to play these letters. Arguably "X" does not exist in Romanian either, but it is included as it is used for borrowed words. Russian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, contain 104 tiles using this distribution: The former Soviet distribution had 126 tiles and was as follows: Another Russian version, called Эрудит (Erudit), has 131 tiles: This distribution has no Ë tile. In "Erudit", only nominative singular and "pluralia tantum" nouns are allowed. Scottish Gaelic-language sets originally were planned