Scrabble Showdown set of 16 letter tiles are placed on the board. A randomizer then causes tiles to light up. Each team is allowed to stop the randomizer; a team starts the final round with the regulation value of the tiles that they stop the randomizer on; the number of tiles that the randomizer lights up is the number of "Bonus Scrabble Tiles" that the team had earned from the three previous rounds. This becomes their "head start" score before playing "Scrabble Lightning". The game is played on a regulation Scrabble board with only the double and triple-word score spaces (the double
Super Scrabble players find games with more players cramped. With its larger board, "Super Scrabble" is ideally suited for three- and four-player games. Indeed, its scoring sheets do not have enough lines to keep score for most two-player games. "Super Scrabble" has exactly twice as many tiles as "Scrabble", but the distribution of letters is not simply the original distribution doubled. The distribution is: The and indicate modifications from double the original distribution, with indicating more than double the original distribution, and indicating fewer. Note, for example, that there are more than twice as many S's (ten, whereas standard "Scrabble" has four).