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 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