Scrabble letter distributions these 130 tiles. It was An unofficial Japanese Hiragana Scrabble set uses these 100 tiles: The obsolete letters ゐ and ゑ, the letter を now exclusively used as a grammatical particle, and the lengthener ー have no tiles. Words are played in "dictionary format": This version was created by a student from Japan, and is not in wide circulation. A more popular set by Scrabble3D uses these 206 tiles: The obsolete letters "ぇ", "ゐ", "ゑ", "ゎ", "ぃ", "ぁ", "ぅ", and "ぉ", along with the marks "ー", "゛", and " ゜", have no tiles (with the first three letters and the
Maven (Scrabble) four-ply simulation then they are not worth doing." As the board value can be evaluated with very high accuracy in Scrabble, unlike games such as Go, deeper simulations are unlikely to change the initial evaluation.) The "pre-endgame" phase works in almost the same way as the "mid-game" phase, except that it is designed to attempt to yield a good end-game situation. The "endgame" phase takes over as soon as there are no tiles left in the bag. In two-player games, this means that the players can now deduce from the initial letter distribution the exact tiles on each other's racks.