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 are virtually absent in Finnish. Arguably "B", "C", "F", and "G" (outside the digraph "NG") do not exist in Finnish either, but they are included as they are used for borrowed words, and "F" in some western dialects. A variant called Alfapet (originally the name of Swedish Scrabble), contains 108 tiles: French-language editions of Scrabble contain these 102 tiles: Diacritical marks are ignored. Galician-language sets use these 100 tiles: Stress accents are disregarded. This is called Letrad@s.GZ (originally Scrabble.GZ), and is not an official edition by Mattel. Arguably "J", "K", "W", and "Y" do not exist in Galician, but they