TV Scrabble screen and stylus and the tiles would fly out of the podiums onto a giant upright Scrabble board. Contestants scored points for the word they made but only the higher scoring word remained on the board to be played off for the next go. This would be played four or five times. The second round was Speed Scrabble. Each player was given a clean board and had just one minute to formulate as many words and score as high as they can. They would take their minutes in turn. The winner of the first game would do battle with the
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