Scrabble (game show) wild card contestants competed in semifinal matches on Monday through Thursday. The four winners advanced to the final matches that Friday, with a grand prize of $100,000 for the winner. With slight adjusting, this tournament format became the new permanent "Scrabble" format on December 29, 1986. As noted above, each episode now featured four contestants and two Crossword games worth $500 each. The champion played in the first Crossword, whose winner set a Sprint time for the second winner to beat, and the Sprint winner received $1,000 and took or retained the championship. With this format change, "Scrabble" became a
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