Scrabble Showdown and with 30 seconds on the clock the parent yells out a three letter word that can be formed by the five letters in the board. The child must maneuver the letter screens in the track so the three letter word appears at the bottom of the game board. The team scores one point for each word they make and the opponents then try to beat that score. There are a handful of episodes in which "Scrabble Flash" is played first and the minigames are played in rounds 2 and 3 but for most episodes, Round 3 is always "Scrabble
Scrabble variants receive points for their own words, and at the end, when there are no more consonants or no more vowels, the player with the most points wins the game. This form of Scrabble can often result in many players participating simultaneously; the official record for participation in France, where Duplicate Scrabble is the preferred form of the game, is 1485 at the 1998 tournament in Vichy. It is also the predominant format used in the French World Scrabble Championships. So called because in it the blank tiles are recycled. If a blank tile is played to represent a particular letter,